[Photos] Boranup Forest

[moonvoice]

I always feel a bit empty
if I don't get to visit the Boranup forest at least once a year.

Comprising mostly young karri leaves,
with a distinctive karri biome,
made up of metres of layers of karri bark that drops from the silvery branches every year.


Grey days, silvery trees.






The jarrah amongst the karri trees. You can pick the jarrah trees out by their blacker bark - since they don't shed it like karri trees, they keep the marks of the bushfire that tore through about three or four years ago.



Delicacy.



New growth? Except that's not jarrah leaves, that's some other thing that's seeded in the bark.



Orchids that will never flower.



Green and French Grey.



The fern.



The canopy.



Reach



Sometimes nature makes a gateway to the liminal for you. And sometimes she decorates it with wild, native wisteria.





*breathes deeply.*





The ground decorated with flowering Hibbertia.



Arum lily. Feral, invasive pests. But still beautiful.



Our Clematis pubescens, known for rain pollination.







The trails through the flowering Hibbertia were lovely.



Hovea.







Another type of Hibbertia



We absolutely got rained on.



Peppermint tree in the bottom left, with its weeping habit.

Comments

[venturous]

love the Clematis pubescent - lovely variation on our Clematis virginicus known as Virgin's Bower. It grow slush along the river and damp roadsides, and has a scent that travels on the breeze.

That hovea is glorious.

[moonvoice]

Clematis is so awesome, and so primitive and brilliant.

[silverjackal]

Oh these photos are magnificent. One can practically hear the forest "buzz" with vegetal growth, and the contrast between silver and black bark is particularly striking.

[moonvoice]

It was pretty special, we missed the 'fungi season' of Autumn this year, but I so don't mind. :D

[feralkiss]

Aaah I wish I could visit places like that.

[moonvoice]

There should be teleporters damn it!!

[feralkiss]

Random unrelated thought: is it as annoying exporting seeds and other plants from Australia as it is importing them? Like if you were to post native plants/seeds. I remember you mentioning the border controls opening my package to take out feathers and stuff, if I'm correct. I was wondering if it works the same the otherway.

[elinox]

The Hovea is absolutely gorgeous!

[moonvoice]

Aren't they stunning? And there were *so many.*

[cmcmck]

They look rather like our own plane tree- it's a similar sort of bark and sheds in the same way.

[moonvoice]

I know Platanus but I was given to understand that the bark didn't come off pretty smoothly, mostly all at once? But was more irregular? The pictures I can see sort of indicate that they aren't just like...smooth all over?

[bunny_m]

<3

[moonvoice]

:)