Euryomyrtus leptospermoides (formerly Baeckea leptospermoides 2001)
Five petalled blossoms, white with pink tinges, a dark red centre,
and up to 23 stamens of varying lengths with the five longest each being central to each of the petals. Foliage consists of
thick oval leaves that have darker green speckles on them, with leaves opposite and a further pair of leaves at right angles alternating
along the stems.
August
Merredin, Wheatbelt region, Western Australia, and found through the central Wheatbelt from Wialki
to Lake King, and into the adjacent western edge of the Goldfields.
Euryomyrtus maidenii (formerly Baeckea maidenii 2001)
Five petalled pastel pink blossoms with a dark red centre. Ten stamens. Foliage consists of tiny thick concave oval leaves that have darker green speckles on them held upward towards the stem, with leaves
opposite and a further pair of leaves at right angles alternating all the way up the stems.
August
Exocarpos aphyllus, Leafless Ballart, Leafless Cherry, Chuk, Dtulya
A hemiparasitic (that is partially parasitic, being able to produce
its own chlorophyll) leafless shrub with strongly ribbed thick and stiff green branching stems. Shrubs can reach up to five
metres in height. Flowers are not open in these photos. Flowers are in clusters of very tiny six petalled yellow star-shaped
flowers. The red cherry-like part is not really the fruit, but a thickening of the flower stem which develops at the seed ripens,
but it is edible and favoured by birds which swallow the seed as well, thus aiding distribution and germination. The seed sits
above this red band, so appears to be outside the fruit.
August, with fruit and buds but no open flowers seen.
Euchiton sphaericus, (formerly Gnaphalium sphaericum), Star cudweed, Japanese Cudweed, Annual Cudweed.
Bridgetown, South West Region, Western Australia and found around the coast between Geraldton and Albany, and near the coast around Esperance. Also in scattered locations through the Mid West, Wheatbelt, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields regions.