Anyways, to start things off, last Tuesday my friend Ilena, who's a botany major (and frankly a bit of a plant nerd) graciously took a group of us through King's Park on a wildflower talk. It's spring here so most of the flowers are in full bloom, so it made for some pretty awesome pictures:
Red-and-green kangaroo paw, a plant you see all over around here but is actually found only in Western Australia, it's their official state plant or something of that nature
Sundew - doesn't look like too much but was maybe my favorite of the whole tour because it's carnivorous! Those sticky fronds attract and then trap insects, close around them and digest them. Pretty sweet.
Don't remember the name of this one but it's some kind of orchid
The flowering stalks of the grass tree dry up when they're done flowering and then they're really easy to break off, so they make for awesome spear-looking walking sticks that make me feel powerful and angry (at least that's what I'm going for with this face, it also looks a little constipated).
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