"Rupert Ward" wrote in message
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(Oops, just thought I would re-post it with the from as my name!)

Have spent sometime looking through the http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/
for an ID of this native plant, don't really have enough data to input
into a search.

This image was taken in Albany (WA) late March: http://tinyurl.com/324nwv

Rupert.





Try looking at Swamp bottlebrush - Beaufortia sparsa
http://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/apii/id/a/19526 and
http://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/apii/id/a/6950