Most – around 80% – of southwestern Australia’s flower species are endemic.
Many naturally only occur in very particular, small portions of WA’s southwest.
Almost all are extraordinary.
Some are very obviously beautiful and/or highly unusual.
Others – this one, for instance – only reveal their singularity if you stop walking, get your head down to where the flower is, and look closely.
All members of the genus Conostylis – commonly known as cotton heads – occur naturally only in southwest WA.
This, I think, is Conostylis setosa, known as white cotton head.
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 9.34 am on 30 September in bushland near Gidgegannup, in the Darling Range, less than an hour’s drive from Perth’s CBD.
We saw many wildflowers that day; more of them will soon become visible on Pelican Yoga.
Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy a particularly luscious duo version of Billy Strayhorn’s Passion Flower.
Joe Lovano is saxophonist, with late great pianist John Hicks.
This is from Joe Lovano’s 2000 album 52nd Street Themes.