Orchids
A great example of a plant that is in flower along Wishing Well Track in early Spring, are two native orchids that you can see growing in the top of the trunks of some tall tree ferns.
The orchid in the first photo is Pterostylis pedunculata, Maroonhood Orchid.
The Vic Flora website (www.vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au) identifies the orchid in the second photo as Corybas grumulus, the Mountain Helmet Orchid, and cites the plant is registered as endangered.
Found in mountain forests of eastern Victoria, often in fern gullies and wet sclerophyll forests growing in rich mountain loam or on rotting logs or tree fern trunks.
Plants of the forest
FOREST HOUNDSTONGUE (Austrocynoglossum latifolium)
A low-growing plant seen at the edges of paths. If you feel the underside of the leaf, you will understand the name.
FOREST DAISY
A low-growing plant that is In flower early Summer.
ST PAUL’S WORT
FOREST NIGHTSHADE (Solanum prinophyllum)
This plant was seen flowering in late December. It is a prickly, low-growing plant, up to 50cm tall, that grows in the bushland areas.