Proteaceae Adenanthos Wildflowers

Adenanthos venosus

Member - John and Val — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:17:00 GMT

A straggling low shrub. Leaves are broadly oval ending in a point with numerous longitudinal veins. Small dusky red flowers are slightly furry.
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: venosus Main Flower Colour: Red

Basketflower

Member - John and Val — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:11:00 GMT

A lanky, erect, lignotuberous shrub, reaching about 1.5m high. Rounded or oval leaves are crowded along the branches. Flowers are quite large, orange-red with prominent hairy styles. Grows in white or grey sand, gravel, loam on consolidated sand dunes, swamps and winter-wet depressions. The shrub regenerates after bushfire by resprouting from its underground lignotuber. Pollinators include honeyeaters, particularly the Western Spinebill, which can access the nectar with its long curved bill, and the Silvereye, which punctures the flower tube.
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: obovatus Main Flower Colour: Red

Gland Flower

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:13:00 GMT

Adenanthos terminalis, commonly known as Gland Flower, Yellow Gland Flower or Adenanthos, is a one metre tall shrub in the Proteaceae family. It is found in south eastern regions of Australia, in the states of South Australia and Victoria, and is the most widespread of the two Adenanthos species occurring outside of Western Australia. Adenanthos terminalis grows as an upright shrub, usually no more than 1 m (3 ft) high, but occasionally up to 2 m (7 ft). It lacks a lignotuber. Branches are held erect, and are covered in hairs that lie close along the stem. The leaves are laciniate, being segmented by threes into between three and seven, but most often five, long thin laciniae, each between 5 and 15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) long, and around 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter. They most occur clustered at the ends of the branches, but some persist on the stem. Stem leaves are most hairless, and smaller than the leaves that surround the flower, which often have long hairs near their bases. Unlike most other Adenanthos species, the inflorescence of A. terminalis is not always reduced to a single flower: flowers may occur in groups of up to three. They are usually hidden by the surrounding floral leaves, and consist of a perianth up to 16 mm (0.63 in) long, and a style up to 30 mm ( in) long. The perianth is white to cream in colour, sometimes with some green, and covered in short hairs on the outside. The style is also nearly always hairs, and the ovary is densely haired.
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: terminalis Main Flower Colour: Yellow

Kangaroo Island Gland Flower

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:32:00 GMT

Adenanthos macropodianus has an erect habit, usually growing to 1 metre (3 ft) in height although plants as high as 3 metres (10 ft) have been recorded. The leaves, which are up to 15 mm (0.6 in) long, are silvery, and deeply lobed into nine or more soft, hairy laciniae about half a millimetre in diameter. The flowers, which appear throughout the year, have a pink to red (or rarely yellow) perianth and a style up to 30 mm long.
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: macropodianus Main Flower Colour: Pink

Little Woollybush

John Baas — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:56:00 GMT

Erect,compact shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. red/pink, Feb or May to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy clay, gravel. Among low scrub.
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: argyreus Main Flower Colour: Red

Silver Bush

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:13:00 GMT

Prostrate to erect shrub, usually under 2m in hight with soft silvery foliage, flowering all year, more common between April and October and is Endemic to Kangaroo Island
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: macropodinna Main Flower Colour: Red

Woollybush

Member - John and Val — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:10:00 GMT

Woollybush grows as an upright, spreading shrub, but can be a small tree up to 5 m tall. It has erect branches that are covered in short hairs when young. Leaves may be up to 4cm long, and repeatedly divide by threes into from 5 to 50 narrow sections giving a soft feathery appearanace. Flowers are red, and occur alone or in small groups, hidden within the foliage at the end of branches. Each red, tubular flower is about 3cm long, hairy on the outside but smooth and hairless inside. The style is about 4cm long.
Family: Proteaceae Genus: Adenanthos Species: sericeus Main Flower Colour: Red