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 Vic Flora website (www.vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au) identifies the orchid in the first photo as Corybas grumulus, one of the Helmet Orchids, and cites the plant is registered as endangered.
The second orchid is Pterostylis pedunculata, Maroonhood Orchid.
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
A low-growing plant seen at the edges of paths. Feel the underside of the leaf and you will understand the name.
FOREST DAISY
A low-growing plant that is In flower early Summer.
ST PAUL’S WORT
FOREST NIGHTSHADE
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.
