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Common Bluets typically have a four lobe flower. This five lobe flower mutation appears to be an exception. Similar to finding a four leaf clover among three leaf clovers.
WOODLAND NATIVE
The dominant color is red, but this trillium can also be white or various shades of pink. The red trillium commonly hybridizes with T. flexipes.
WOODLAND NATIVE
Shown is a flower which is beyond mature and in decline. As the flower ages the white petals will turn a rosy pink color.
WOODLAND NATIVE
These small delicate flowers can be found in expansive groups within patches of woodland moss covered ground.
WOODLAND NATIVE
The inner spadix (Jack) will develop into a showy cluster of bright red berries as the spadix withers.
Tasmania abbreviated as TAS, nicknamed Tassie, Nuenonne and Palawa kani: Lutruwita) is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 km to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of around 535,500 as of September 2019. Just over forty percent of the population resides in the Greater Hobart precinct, which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city, Hobart.
The island was adjoined to the mainland of Australia until the end of the last glacial period about 10,000 years ago. Much of the island is composed of Jurassic dolerite intrusions (the upwelling of magma) through other rock types, sometimes forming large columnar joints. Tasmania has the world's largest areas of dolerite, with many distinctive mountains and cliffs formed from this rock type. The central plateau and the southeast portions of the island are mostly dolerites. Mount Wellington above Hobart is a good example, showing distinct columns known as the Organ Pipes. In the southern midlands as far south as Hobart, the dolerite is underlaid by sandstone and similar sedimentary stones. In the southwest, Precambrian quartzites were formed from very ancient sea sediments and form strikingly sharp ridges and ranges, such as Federation Peak or Frenchmans Cap. In the northeast and east, continental granites can be seen, such as at Freycinet, similar to coastal granites on mainland Australia. In the northwest and west, mineral-rich volcanic rock can be seen at Mount Read near Rosebery, or at Mount Lyell near Queenstown. Also present in the south and northwest is limestone with caves. The quartzite and dolerite areas in the higher mountains show evidence of glaciation, and much of Australia's glaciated landscape is found on the Central Plateau and the Southwest. Cradle Mountain, another dolerite peak, for example, was a nunatak. The combination of these different rock types contributes to scenery which is distinct from any other region of the world.[citation needed] In the far southwest corner of the state, the geology is almost wholly quartzite, which gives the mountains the false impression of having snow-capped peaks year round. 29468