#fringe lily

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Twining fringe-lily

Australian wildflower - not much bigger than your fingernail

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#3141-3143 - Twining Thysanotus sp.

According to Jolanda Keeble who wrote the book on the local flora, and Terry Macfarlane at the WA Herbarium, there are at least 5 twining Fringe-Lillies growing around Wongan Hills, but only one has a formal description, as of 2024 - Thysanotus patersoni.

The one below might be Thysanotus sp. 'Yelbeni'.

And this next one probably Thysanotus sp. 'Lochada'

As with the Thrips, the 'Thysano' part of the name refers to the fringe.

The genus has about 60 species, mostly native to Western Australia. They're perennial herbs with bisexual flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to 50, with 6 mauve or blue tepals. Sometimes the flowers are white, and quite often the plant is a leafless twining climber, as with the three species shown here.

Great Southern BioBlitz 2024, Wongan Hills

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Sunday, 13th February, 2022 🌿

So many beautiful fringe lillies 💜

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Sunday, 13th February, 2022 🌿

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Sunday, 13th February, 2022 🌿

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Sunday, 12th December, 2021

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Saturday, 23rd October, 2021

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#3627 - Thysanotus arbuscula

First formally described in 1876 by English botanist John Gilbert Baker in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany from specimens collected by James Drummond near the Swan River (haven't seen his name in a while).

The specific epithet arbuscula means 'a small tree or shrub', referring to the habit of the species, although that's optimistic, since adult plants are less than a meter tall and largely leafless.

Endemic to near-coastal areas, in an area about 400km long mostly centred on Perth. It grows in sand, gravel or laterite - in this case sand, since Whiteman Park is all sand, often seasonally wet.

Whiteman Park, Perth