Thysanotus is a genus within the asparagus family.
All but one of its 50 known species are native to Australia.
45 of them occur in Western Australia alone, and most of those exist only in particular parts of WA’s southwest.
They are generally known as “fringe lilies”
More than probably, this post’s heroes are members of one of the aforementioned 45 species.
All photos were taken within not very many footsteps of each other.
Today’s post is the penultimate chapter in this sequence.
All of the series’ photos were taken on just one day – 30 October – which was well past the peak of the 2023 “spring flowering” in southwest WA.
The series does not include anywhere near every flower species we saw on that day; it may, however, convey some idea of just how astonishing is springtime in this part of “our” planet.
(had our return from overseas been a little more “timely”, who knows how very many more orchid species this series would have featured?)
