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Old 07-09-2007, 03:11 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
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Default What Flower is this?

In article , "P. van Rijckevorsel" wrote:
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Hi People, can someone please tell me the name of this flower? I have
uploaded it on my site www.rent-a-cloud.com under 'Greencards' It's at
the beginning, yellow and named 'Wildflower' Visitors to my site ask
me for identification. I would be grateful for your help. I found this
flower on bushes north of Sydney, Australia. I do not know if it is an
Australian native. (My site is NOT commercial. It is my hobby for
videoclips and greeting cards of nature, free for personal use).
Thanks for your help - Klaus


You might try looking at _Pultenaea_ species. Several of them native
to eastern Oz look a bit like your pic.

http://images.google.
com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2004-38,
DVXA:en&q=pultenaea&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Hmm... That URL's a bit of a pain. :-) Suggest you just google
"Pultenaea" then select the "images" option and work from there.

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Australia has a very large and unique flora, so I cannot help you. It looks
like a papilionoid flower to me (so in the general vicinity of
http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/23495 and
http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/3713), but there are very many
species in that group, and very many have yellow flowers.
PvR


Cheers, Phred.

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