Developing seed pods on the Tasmanian waratah. Most plants we have looked at this year have failed to set seed. This plant with a few pods for each inflorescence was doing very well.
Proteaceae: Grevillea leptobotrys Dryandra formThis is a beautiful Grevillea which starts flowering this time of the year and goes through December. It grows in gravel soils and has the most sweet honey smell which attracts many bees. The flowers are darker pink when they first open, ageing to light pink.There are a number of leaf forms within this species. It grows up to 50 cm when growing in other shrubs but mostly up to 30cm (1ft). leptobotrys means "Thin bunch of grapes" in reference to the flowers