Meet the Creeping Day Iris.
This is a particularly strange iris that blooms 2 days a year in Spring, usually a few weeks apart.
An exotic weed in rainforest understory. Still tracking it's name & place of origin.
Creeping Day Iris around the bird bath.
It stays out for a day, then the flowers simply fold up & shows over folks, nothing to see here!
Creeping Day Iris flower fully open.
It spreads prolifically in the rainforest understory and it's amazing to see all these pregnant yellow buds suddenly appear all over like little candles in the evening gloom. After dawn next day they all begin to open simultaneously. By 0730 the forest has a sudden celebration of flowers looking back at you from everywhere.
From bud to fully open flower takes about a half hour.You can watch them moving. Very much living things. I'll time lapse them next time.
Macro CU of Creeping Day Iris flower pongy nectary.
Another interesting thing about them is their stench. Oh yes they smell BAD. Something must love em! But I forgive them, they are just XQZT!
Subject No. 2: A Vulnerable Orchid.
I also found this fragrant orchid in full flower. Below is an extreme macro closeup of the happy Hobbitty face of the 5 mm flower. Now this one has such a divine perfume I just swooned.
Peristeranthus hillii - orchid flower macro CU.
Go to Sydney Botanical Gardens Herbarium site to read all about them.
The palms are all in abundant flower too. Alexandra's, Bangalows, Cane palms, Chinese fan palms - 4 - 5 different species, Walking stick palsm, Royal palms, Date palms...the list goes on..I have so many. The difference this year is that many have come into flower for the first time, after 25 years!
Time to go take more pix!!
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