Christmas Tree l
Nuytsia floribunda
Western Australian Native
Christmas Tree
November through to December this amazingly beautiful native plant, also unique to Western Australia, flowers…so it became know as our own local Christmas tree…
I heard an Nyoongar Indigenous local storyteller explaining that when this tree flowers it means the snakes are active in the bush…and as the flowers become a deep orange colour later into the hotter weather the snakes will have their babies…this Nyoongar Indigenous storyteller also told us that the local Nyoongar community could read all that they needed to know about the seasons and food and water supplies by the colours that were present at any given time of the year in their bushland…as each cycle of plants took its turn to flower, the bush took on a very different look and colour…a living and growing university and library…and she went on to add that Nyoongar people did not have to chop one single tree down to create that university and library…
If you want to find out more please visit my dear Flickr friends site
www.flickr.com/photos/catinahat/3068962927/
or …
www.creativespirits.info/ozwest/perth/aboriginalhistorype...
Explore Dec 17, 2008 #282
Christmas Tree l
Nuytsia floribunda
Western Australian Native
Christmas Tree
November through to December this amazingly beautiful native plant, also unique to Western Australia, flowers…so it became know as our own local Christmas tree…
I heard an Nyoongar Indigenous local storyteller explaining that when this tree flowers it means the snakes are active in the bush…and as the flowers become a deep orange colour later into the hotter weather the snakes will have their babies…this Nyoongar Indigenous storyteller also told us that the local Nyoongar community could read all that they needed to know about the seasons and food and water supplies by the colours that were present at any given time of the year in their bushland…as each cycle of plants took its turn to flower, the bush took on a very different look and colour…a living and growing university and library…and she went on to add that Nyoongar people did not have to chop one single tree down to create that university and library…
If you want to find out more please visit my dear Flickr friends site
www.flickr.com/photos/catinahat/3068962927/
or …
www.creativespirits.info/ozwest/perth/aboriginalhistorype...
Explore Dec 17, 2008 #282