The colour of this beauty in the landscape just takes your breath away.
Turkey Bush
Calytrix exstipulata
In the Kakadu region, the appearance of flowers on the Turkey Bush around May signals the end of the season of Banggereng and the beginning of Yegge. The flowering is spectacular, masking the insignificant leaves and giving the plants an overall pink appearance until about August.
When the flower is developing it is protected by a structure called the 'calyx'. The calyx has long, stiff hairs that are almost as long as the petals. After the petals fall, the pink-red calyx remains. It was for this special calyx that the genus, Calytrix, was named by the French botanist, Jacques Labillardière, referring to the hairs ('thrix' in Greek) on the calyx. Calytrix is found only in Australia with most of its 70 or so species occurring in Western Australia. It belongs to the family Myrtaceae, which includes the eucalypts, bottlebrushes and paperbarks. Like other members of that family, the leaves of Calytrix exstipulata contains oil with therapeutic properties. Indigenous people use the plant for pain-relief.
So where did you get all this information?! Its very formal - could I have it in your words? This particular flower is so different from all other flowers! Lovely 'criss-cross' look!
@panthora lol I still have yellow every day just different albums as I already had Darwin flora in mind