It's #Arachtober#biodiversity#WildOz 🌿🕷️

Pink Enamel Orchids (Elythranthera emarginata) enjoying the spring sunshine #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

Can a #lichen#fungifriends? The colour of this Golden-eye Lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus) was amazing. Seen at the top of a 48m high granite outcrop in south west WA 🌿📸🍄

Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants https://botany.fyi/23wn2r#Botany

Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants

Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction

A time for Dragons 🐉 The Common Dragon Orchid (Caladenia barbarossa) with its hairy labellum designed to dupe male thynnid wasps into pollinating the orchid #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿

Here's a list of real nature photographers posting their own work, who make their images accessible with Alt Text. I love that Bluesky values actual people and not those image stealing accounts. This is just to get you started, there are tons more great photographers here! 🌿 #birds 🧪

The spring weather will soon warm up but there are still #fungifriends#fungi#biodiversity#wildoz 🌿📸🍄

This male superb fairy-wren was doing its usual mercurial flitting about in the shrubbery, and then it sped out, landing on this weathered post in front of me as if to say HERE'S YOUR CHANCE – TAKE IT. Bellambi, south coast NSW. 🪶

One of the beautiful feather flowers that is endemic to the south west of WA and which grows in lateritic soils in the #PerthHills#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz#myrtle#Myrtaceae 🌿

The Sugar Orchid (Ericksonella saccharata) is endemic to WA and was named after the sugary white appearance of its flowers #orchids#biodiversity#ozflora#ozplants#WildOz 🌿