Blackbutt Creek offers up 4 flowering orchids : April 4 2025

Day one of the market blitz from the Trump tariffs - this is going to screw markets and my asset base for more than a year. The man has no grasp of basic market economics or economic history. The 1929 tariffs created the world's worst recession - next best coming

Pushed to go walking - walked down to Blackbutt Creek walking in opposite direction to last time. Australian native violets to greet - not a walk in Seven Mile Beach NP

Confident I would find small nodding grenhoods as there were a few budding last time - twins

One of about 6 flowers open- pterostylis hispidula

Matching rosette

Photo work was tough - low light and risk of leeches

Saw these rosettes further along - thinking they are nodding greenhoods - pterostylis nutans

Budding mosquito orchid

Maybe also nodding greenhood

Sharp greenhood - pterostylis acuminata

Greenhood budding - leaf is different- next two weeks we will know

Going to guess pterostylis nutans- the pedicel into the rounded leaf is a clue

No doubting about this one

Sharp greenhood - pterostylis acuminata

Crossed to the side of the track I do not normally walk - tiny blue mushroom - not seen these before

One knocked over - amazing fan form under the dome

Kind of became a mushroom day - brown

Dark brown and wooden looking

Yellow - was hoping to find mosquito orchids based on buds last walk

Did find the budding acianthus orchid seen last time is flowering

Acinanthus pusilllis - small mosquito orchid - first for the season

Side on and a little closer

Close by mushroom which was a good marker for the video. Find the yelllow mushroom and orchid is just in front

Acianthus pusillis with attendant pollinator

Always a tough photo as the labellum is half a matchstick wide

Black mushroom staircase

Tough photo challenge - mushroom the size of a 10 cent piece piece - just want to grab the light

Fourth orchid of the day - last of the chiloglottis seminuda - calli go only half way down the labellum = semi-nude

One sole pea flower still going

A few more woolsia pungens

Turned into a good orchid walk - four types flowering and one more beckoning. Did help to get the head off market stuff

Dinner: Barramundi with mash and peas - fried potatoes for me

Here endeth a tough week in the markets. Will be at keast one year to recover the paper losses

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