First Wasp Orchids from Blackbutt Creek : August 25 2024

Wake to a cloudy day with rain in the forecast. Got busy writing up the investing stuff from last week. Friday was a huge day up for uranium which lifted the frame of mind a lot. Also made some headway on the IM promotion. Have been using to test out a product being launched on August 26 - AI Millionaire

Been putting walking down to Blackbutt Creek. Takes 15 minutes there and back again. I do miss the 400 metres in the old place. Nice line of spring blossoms - the rest of the photos come from the bush - promise

A day for pea flowers - hardenbergia - hard to decide where to focus. I think the camera decided up the back was good .

Yellow pea flower with quite a large leaf - new for the season

Oxalis most likely escaped from the gardens above

Loved this imagery of the new fern leaves unfolding above the old

These flowers are tiny - maybe two of those plastic pinheads across but they do make a splash

Not a lot of mushrooms around - this one on a fallen dead branch

Been walking this track since November. Seen these chiloglottis leaves every walk - still not budding. It gives me a clue to ID

Hakea flower

New flower emerging with attendant ant. No idea what it is

Also new in star shape. Will look up some names when I have time

Grevillea with a tinge of pink

Slender rice flower - always a challenge for focus

More signs of spring - think it is eriostemon

A different pea flower with a smaller flower and smaller leaf than the previous one

Had seen this cluster of buds last week - it is one of the small sun orchids. They like the rocky abode

This was the walk mission - last week buds - this week open for the first time for me on this track - eastern wasp orchid

Key other ID is splayed labellum with calli coming down to the tip - chiloglottis formicifera

Normally the ladies I meet are keen to see orchids - not this one - she zipped by though she did say hello

Found many open - took photos of them all to be sure of standard ID and to get angles. This from above

Four in frame also showing the leaf. It is a little serrated - I am not expert enough or patient enough to say if it's the same as the first leaf shown. What I do know is this spot is more sunny than the other

Photo a little from behind - looks the same to me

Close up of one budding with two pairs of leaves below

Over the shoulder view

On this the calli are not as far down and the flower is a little more upright. That could be important for ID

A flash of tiny in white

This is where things get different. The labellum is less arrow shaped and the calli only go half way

Side on

Matching leaf - bigger and smooth edged

Some calli to halfway

And none - not enough to say it is chiloglottis trapeziformis - will ask the gurus

Sundew flower to end the walk

Good to fund the wasp orchids open and it did not rain on me

Dinner: Chicken cashew stir fry Chinese style

Did get the blog post out

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