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banksia

this is a macro of the first flower formation on the very beautiful Candle Stick Banksia; attenuata...they start out as black woolly spikes and these bright green flowers push out of the hard woody spikes during the end of spring...more images of the different stages coming...

 

for more details go to...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_attenuata

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Uploaded on October 29, 2008
Taken on October 16, 2008