CITY BLOOM Florelegium - a selection of Sunshine Coast wildflowers
One of our project aims is to create a mini Florelegium & share the wonders of a selection of wildflowers from across the region.
The six project posters feature images of Sunshine Coast wildflowers by Man&Wah. The images were taken while on Wildflowering excursions here on the coast last year.
The six project posters feature images of Sunshine Coast wildflowers by Man&Wah. The images were taken while on Wildflowering excursions here on the coast last year.
Fan Flower
(Scaevola calendulacea)
A groundcover plant found on coastal dunes which is important for dune stabilisation, has beautiful fan shaped pale lilac/blue flowers with five petals and creamy/yellow throat. This plant flowers throughout the year. After flowering edible purply-black berries are formed.
Image: Man&Wah
Cotton Tree
(Hibiscus tiliaceus)
Spreading tree to 9m, with large, rounded leaves. Grows on the coast often close to salt water. Large, delicate, yellow flowers bloom sporadically from spring to autumn, aging to an orangey pink in a single day, then dropping. The tree has many uses for Indigenous people, with bark made into string and flowers being edible.
Image: Man&Wah
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Chaffy swamp pea
(Pultenaea paleacea)
A small shrub that grows in wet sandy areas. Narrow leaves to 40 mm, smooth above, hairy below. It produces pea shaped flowers in terminal heads from winter to spring, bright yellow and reddish orange, with hairy bracts separating the flowers.
Image: Man&Wah
Milkmaids
(Burchardia umbellata)
Perennial lily to around 60cm that forms umbels of white, 6-petalled flowers, which have a -pink centre. Flowers in spring, though in the wallum areas it is one of the first plants to flower after fires. The tubers were a food source for Indigenous peoples.
Image: Man&Wah
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Boronia
(This image is of a Boronia keysii. The more common local one is Boronia falcifolia)
Small shrub to 1 m that grows in wet wallum areas. Flowers are bright pink with 4 petals, and yellow and white in the centre with 8 stamen. They flower from Sept-March, but some blooms can be found at other times as well.
Image: Man&Wah
Swamp banksia
(Banksia robur)
One of the five banksias that are typically found on the Sunshine Coast, this one is a shrub sized banksia that grows in wet heath areas. It has wide spatula shaped leaves with serrated edge and distinctive yellow mid-vein. The flower spikes move through different phases of flowering, from light green, to deep blue-green, yellowish green, rusty brown, then grey.
Image: Man&Wah
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