Pitcher plant traps have evolved at least six times, with two types found in Australia: the southwestern Cephalotus, which contains just a single species, and the tropical genus Nepenthes, which is represented by a few species (3000 km away!) in far north Queensland

Just uploaded the first ever published or online photos of Cyathostemon gracilis, a lovely southwest endemic Myrtaceae shrub with slender branchlets and decussate leaves:
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

With the thickest leaves of any of the 930ish species of eucalypt, it is common practice in south-western Australia to use a leaf of Eucalyptus tetraptera as a coaster.

Good to be back onto the orchid content that we all know and love. Here's some of the latest found just east of Perth