New season rainforest greenhoods : July 24 2024

Had a big plan to get out earlier on the bike to cover 3 segments of Seven Mile Beach NP as we are going back to Sydney tomorrow. Made that an action by doing a snack lunch and heading out to the Beach Road access to the national park. Stopped at the 5 km mark on a side track as have seen nodding greenhoods there in earlier years. None but it did give me a break - body is not up to long hard riding

Climbing vine

Got a long way to climb

Always a native violet to show

First sight of a nodding greenhood. None found yesterday. Got to say today was a hard day to get focused photos - ride was a bit harder than done for a while

Part of the mission was to check progress of blunt greenhoods - rosette

This was a big colony - nothing budding and being overtaken by the native violets. They are the rounder leaves with serrated edges

Found more nodding greenhoods further along the track

Found a new colony of blunt greenhoods further along the track than I have seen

Matching rosette

2nd part of mission was to find maroonhoods. Last found with the nodding greenhoods - found them on the way back. Found a few more colonies before reaching the park. Then crossed over to south side

Was hoping these would be open in a known spot - rainforest greenhood

Got a feeling this is a hybrid as it has the twist in the labellum common in pterostylis curta - colour of the ridge days no and sepals do not extend past the helmet

Pterostylis hildae. Why suspect a hybrid? The curta are in the same cluster

Matching rosette

Nodding greenhood this side with an ant pollinator. Not the best at that job as they cannot fly

Got on the bike and stopped at a section where alamanac had said I found pterostlyis nana two seasons back

They were growing with these trim greenhoods - pterostylis concinna

Maybe - next time - budding and all the concinna are done

Did check on progress of blunt greenhoods seen last week - at least 10 budding

Step back a bit

Next photo has a story. I know about this site of tall greenhoods - bunochilus longifolia. They snap shut if they get disturbed. In the long grass, I managed to trigger quite a few. Good thing there were 10 plants open

A bit of zoom work. I watched the lower flower pop. The top one stayed open - whew!

Longest ride in a while. Hard work into the wind going out. Easier on the way back.

Dinner: Fried rice - no photos

Trade action: Bought GLO.TO after their private placement smashed price
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