These ground-hugging flowers had gone to seed and were located around 3000m elevation. Online searches indicate a number of possible species. Would be grateful for any info on ecology.
Flowers have been out for a few weeks now. Usually it's well into spring before they flower.
Get out there and enjoy!
Surely it's too much to be mere coincidence. Even the bedding colours are the same (swipe to see the Broken Ear panel). The painting is The Dying Artist and His Last Friend by Zugmunt Andrychiewicz from 1901 so chronology checks out. Wonder if anyone has picked up on this previously??
Winter rains have really brought them to life.
This is an interesting and atypical member of Ericaceae. It never forms truly woody structure and is hard to propagate but is occasionally seen in cultivation where it has high potential. In nature it grows in damp wet sites in association with sandstone cliffs, deep gullies, streams and waterfalls on the central coast of NSW.
This is a great plant for damp and mossy spots in the garden but seems to be hard to propagate. I've tried taking cuttings but without success. I wonder if anyone has tips?
These are some of the taller specimens I have seen. If you include the flower spikes, some of them clear 5 metres.