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Naked Bluebell

Wahlenbergia gymnoclada

Description:

Beautiful single blue flowers on delicate stalks with petals that were a perfect heart-shape. The inside of the flower showed a stark white tri-lobed stigma. The plant was about 50 cm high with paired leaves at the base and very few leaves at the top.

Habitat:

Spotted in semi shade in a dry sclerophyll forest among other native herbs and shrubs.

Notes:

The flowers were part of indigenous diet and they also provide nectar for butterflies. Family: Campanulaceae

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Leuba Ridgway
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Leuba Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Oct 30, 2014
Submitted on Oct 31, 2014

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