Fan flower

Many Australian wild flowers are tiny, but once you get your eye in, the bush looks amazing at this time of year.

This was taken just at the top of the ridge a couple of kilometres from our house. The flowers are barely visible from the car, but once you get out and start to walk you realise that the whole area is carpeted with flowers and so many different kinds.

This particular tiny gem is a fan flower.

Because there is so much around - and I am going to be hard pressed to get many different blips for the next few days, I'll get the Rower to drive me up there and get a different wild flower every day!! That's the plan anyway.

I have my knee operation tomorrow! WooHoo!!

Here are the details:

Scaevola aemula (Fairy Fan-flower or Common Fan-flower) is a small shrub in the family Goodeniaceae, native to southern Australia. It grows to 50 cm in height and produces white or blue flowers in spikes up to 24 cm long from August to March in its native range. These are followed by rounded, wrinkled berries to 4.5 mm in length.

The species occurs in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.