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a.The Short Collection - Greeting Cards - Australian Native Flowers. Australian Native Wax Flower. m001 The Wax Flowers with their white to pink and mauve, starry, 5 petalled flowers have long been favorites. Found mainly in the temperate parts of Australia, with 32 species with a number of sub-species they are an erect shrub growing to about 2 metres.
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b. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. The Golden Penda. m002 The Golden Penda. The golden staments, after which the genus is named, are 2-3 cm long and most eye catching. In the garden this outstanding ornamental plant flowers when quite young and is one of the most showy rainforest plants.
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bb. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Frangipani. m162 Frangipani - The frangipani grows widely around the warmer parts of Australia. It has beautiful flowers with a stunning perfume. This decorative tree, with its fragrant scented five petal flowers, conjures up the feel of the tropics, warm summer days and exotic island escapes
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c. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Native Banksia.- m003 Australian Native Banksia.- Named after Sir Joseph Banks, the Banksia, with some 50 species is found mainly in Western Australia. It is one of Australia’s most fascinating plants and vary from prostate shrubs, in which the flower spike arises from the ground, to large growing trees. The flower spikes have approximately 1,000 quaint, individual flowers, arranged around a central axis to form a cylindrical spike.
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d. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Native Bottlebrush. m004 Australian Native Bottlebrush. The bottlebrush are possibly the best known and most widely cultivated of Australian shrubs. They consist of hardy, bushy shrubs and trees with tough leaves, often with papery bark and flowers produced in dense spikes at the ends of the branches. The stems are the most conspicuous part of the flower and are in colours of green, yellow, white, various shades of red and also violet.
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e. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. The Rose. m005 The Rose. The rose has captured humankind’s imagination for thousands of years, and has taken a place of honour in gardens around the world. Roses were first cultivated in the gardens of China, but their use was soon worldwide. The Roman and Greek cultures both placed religious, medical and mythical significance on what the poet Sappho called “the Queen of Flowers”.
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f. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Wild Gum Blossom. m007 Australian Wild Gum Blossom. “Gum Tree” is the most common name for the 500 kinds of Australian Eucalyptus. They vary from forest giants to low straggling shrubs. First mentioned by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, when he wrote of a tree having gum exudations, similar to an exotic plant he knew. The term “Gum Tree” is now usually reserved to those eucalyptus with smooth bark.
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g. The Short Collection – Handmade Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers - Pink Gum Blossom m007a |
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h. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Native Waratah. m008 Australian Native Waratah. The floral emblem of New South Wales is the Waratah. A striking plant when in flower, there are four kinds of waratah. These shrubs and trees have tough, dark green leaves, often toothed. The individual flowers grow on a dense head. Waratahs are most particular in their requirements and need a deep, sandy, well drained soil in a protected position, as they are very subject to root rot.
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i. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Wild Flannel Flower. m010 Australian Wild Flannel Flower. A favorite wildflower of New South Wales and Queensland the flannel flower is perfect for a rockery. When mass planted, the lovely, soft, silvery-grey foliage and the whitish, woolly, felt-like flowers in spring and summer add a marvelous contrast to any landscape. These plants are often considered challenging to cultivate, but a sandy, well-drained rockery in full sun should provide.
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j. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Wild Gum Blossom. m010a Australian Wild Gum Blossom. “Gum Tree” is the most common name for the 500 kinds of Australian Eucalyptus. There are many common names and these usually arise from a common feature such as: type of timber, nature of bark, leaf aroma and habit of growth. The flowers have no petals, as they are formed into a cap which covers the stamens and falls off to allow the fluffy stamens to protrude.
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k. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Frangipani. m011a Frangipani. The frangipani grows widely around the warmer parts of Australia. It has beautiful flowers with a stunning perfume. This decorative tree, with its fragrant scented five petal flowers, conjures up the feel of the tropics, warm summer days and exotic island escapes. The frangipani originated in southern Mexico, central America and the Caribbean.
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l. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Native Wattle. m012 Australian Native Wattle.The wattles are possibly the best known amongst the Australian plants and one species, Acacia pycnantha, is regarded as the Australian floral emblem. With over 500 kinds of wattles, distributed throughout Australia, there is a wide range of shape, form and habit of growth, from low, spreading shrubs to large, upright growing trees. The attractive fluffy flowers are arranged in heads.
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m. The Short Collection – Handmade Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers - The Lily Pond - m013 Lily Pond. The Australian water lily has small to large flat and round leaves, which float on the surface of the water. The flowers of white, pink, blue and red arise from beneath the water to flower. They grow with their roots in mud at the bottom of pools.
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n. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Australian Native Christmas Bells. m014 Australian Native Christmas Bells. From late December to February the moist, sunny heartland areas of the east coast of Australia are aided in their floral display by the formal, stiff stemmed Christmas Bells. Arising from a small clump of stiff, grass-like leaves, the flowers vary in colour from red and yellow to orange and yellow or yellow and grow at the end of a stiff flower stalk.
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o. The Short Collection – Handmade Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Roses - Lilac. m015 Roses - White. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose; By any other name would smell as sweet”-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene2. One of the most popular of flowering plants, there are both wild and cultivated species, grown throughout the world. Roses have a long and colourful history. According to fossil evidence, the rose is 35 million years old, with over 30,000 varieties of roses.
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p. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Grevillia - Pink Spider m016 Grevillia - Pink Spider - The Spider Flowers are amongst Australia’s most attractive group of plants. With a wide diversity of form, shape and size, they vary from prostrate, ground hugging plants, through different shrub types, to large, upright growing trees. The foliage is fascinating in its diversity of shape from small and simple to large and deeply divided.
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q. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. The Magnolia. m017 The Magnolia - The usually large, solitary Magnolia flowers vary in shape from almost flat and saucer-like to a narrow goblet shape, and can be quite fragrant. The flowers are usually white, cream, yellow, or pink to purple shades. Flowering occurs mainly in spring, but the evergreen species can flower all through the warmer months. The fruits that follow the flowers are often pink or red, cone-like, showy clusters, with colourful seeds.
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r. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Kangaroo Paw. m018 Kangaroo Paw. With strap-like leaves and unusual flowers, these attractive Western Australian plants are excellent for rockeries. Kangaroo Paws produce their velvety tubular flowers at the end of long, stiff stems and these come in a marvelous range of colours – green, green and red, various reds, yellow and orange. Containing copious quantities of nectar, the flowers attract honeyeaters.
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s. The Short Collection – Greeting Cards – Australian Native Flowers. Kangaroo Paw. m018a Kangaroo Paw. With strap-like leaves and unusual flowers, these attractive Western Australian plants are excellent for rockeries. Kangaroo Paws produce their velvety tubular flowers at the end of long, stiff stems and these come in a marvelous range of colours – green, green and red, various reds, yellow and orange.
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