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

On 7/9/07 01:12, in article
, "blacklight"
wrote:

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


Looks very similar to Cytisus scoparius 'Lena' - a wild 'cousin', perhaps.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On 7 Sep, 02:04, Anne Jackson wrote:
Gorse?

Yes, I would say Gorse. I don't think it is a Cytisus because of the
leaves - the C. scoparius leaves are round (note the leaves on the
picture) and the 'Lena' has lots of red in its petals.

On 7/9/07 12:10, in article
, "
wrote:

On 7 Sep, 02:04, Anne Jackson wrote:
Gorse?

Yes, I would say Gorse. I don't think it is a Cytisus because of the
leaves - the C. scoparius leaves are round (note the leaves on the
picture) and the 'Lena' has lots of red in its petals.

Gorse doesn't have that red on it, though.

http://tinyurl.com/2lsfgs

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

In reply to Sacha ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 7/9/07 12:10, in article
,
" wrote:

On 7 Sep, 02:04, Anne Jackson wrote:
Gorse?

Yes, I would say Gorse. I don't think it is a Cytisus because of the
leaves - the C. scoparius leaves are round (note the leaves on the
picture) and the 'Lena' has lots of red in its petals.

Gorse doesn't have that red on it, though.

http://tinyurl.com/2lsfgs

I don't think it's a gorse either. I don't know what it is though, I've
never seen it before.

"blacklight" wrote in message
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 best guess is that it is Daviesia ulicifolia but given that there are
hundreds of native Australian pea like flowers in the families of bossiaea,
chorizma, daciesia, hovea and labichea, that's pretty much a guess.

On 7/9/07 12:36, in article , "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:

In reply to Sacha ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 7/9/07 12:10, in article
,
" wrote:

On 7 Sep, 02:04, Anne Jackson wrote:
Gorse?

Yes, I would say Gorse. I don't think it is a Cytisus because of the
leaves - the C. scoparius leaves are round (note the leaves on the
picture) and the 'Lena' has lots of red in its petals.

Gorse doesn't have that red on it, though.

http://tinyurl.com/2lsfgs

I don't think it's a gorse either. I don't know what it is though, I've
never seen it before.


If you look at the photo of the Cytisus scoparius the flower, at least, is
very similar. It's a broom but not a gorse-y one, IMO, or not the gorses
I'm familiar with and there's plenty over Dartmoor! Bearing in mind it's in
Australia, perhaps it's a native we haven't seen here but to which others
are related. For example, the Sturts Desert Pea beside it is actually
Swainsona formosa.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On 7/9/07 12:39, in article
, "FarmI"
ask@itshall be given wrote:

"blacklight" wrote in message
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 best guess is that it is Daviesia ulicifolia but given that there are
hundreds of native Australian pea like flowers in the families of bossiaea,
chorizma, daciesia, hovea and labichea, that's pretty much a guess.


I think you've got it.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

In reply to Sacha ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 7/9/07 12:39, in article
, "FarmI"
ask@itshall be given wrote:

"blacklight" wrote in message
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 best guess is that it is Daviesia ulicifolia but given that there
are hundreds of native Australian pea like flowers in the families
of bossiaea, chorizma, daciesia, hovea and labichea, that's pretty
much a guess.


I think you've got it.

I don't. It's almost certainly a pea flower but the ulicifolia hasn't got
the right stem/leaf structure.

I've sent it to my Aussie mate who will probably have one :-)

On 7/9/07 12:55, in article , "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:

In reply to Sacha ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 7/9/07 12:39, in article
, "FarmI"
ask@itshall be given wrote:

"blacklight" wrote in message
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 best guess is that it is Daviesia ulicifolia but given that there
are hundreds of native Australian pea like flowers in the families
of bossiaea, chorizma, daciesia, hovea and labichea, that's pretty
much a guess.


I think you've got it.

I don't. It's almost certainly a pea flower but the ulicifolia hasn't got
the right stem/leaf structure.

I've sent it to my Aussie mate who will probably have one :-)


Farm1 is in Australia........

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

I don't think it is Daviesia ulicifolia since that species tends to
produce dense racemes of flowers and has rather broad leaves. The
plant in the pic shows flowers in small clusters along the stem. I
grew something almost identical to that many years ago from seeds
collected in Oz by a friend's nephew who lived there. It took some
identifying (Australia has a bewildering number of native Fabaceae),
but it eventually turned out to be Pultenaea juniperina.

A somewhat straggling shrub with rather sharp, narrow leaves and
clusters of one, two or three flowers along the stems, arising from
each leaf axil. It grows in waste ground and dry heath type
vegetation in New South Wales, Victoria Tasmania and maybe S.
Australia. As a garden plant it's not the tidiest of things, but the
flowers when they appear are rather showy. Hard pruning of 1 year
growth immediately after flowering can keep it very much tidier, but
it resents older wood being cut. I couldn't persuade it to survive
winters outside in the Midlands, but I'm sure it would be very happy
in Devon and Cornwall. Academic really since I lost my plants many
moons ago. B&T World seeds sell it.

Photographs can be misleading, but I'd be prepared to put a moderately
large sum on it being a Pultenaea and just a slightly smaller amount
on it being juniperina.

"blacklight" wrote
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


Eutaxia obovata

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

On 7 Sep, 14:45, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"blacklight" wrote

Eutaxia obovata

YES! The nana or Egg and Bacon. Well done you!!

Bob Hobden wrote:

Eutaxia obovata

Good one Bob ... and the flowers look absolutely right. However,
Eutaxia has sharp, but obovate leaves (hence the specific name) and
the one in the pic clearly shows needle-like leaves. Still, its a
very close call.

On 7 Sep, 12:27, Sacha wrote:
Gorse doesn't have that red on it, though.

Sure. The angle of the op's picture showed the leaves as almost
needles sharp and that threw me off the right path. I think Bob's got
it though.