Alpine Flower a Day: Korikori, Hairy alpine, Mountain Buttercup
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 28, Korikori, Hairy Alpine, Mountain Buttercup (Ranunculus insignis) – like a big yellow buttercup, fading to...
Alpine Flower a Day: Gentian
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 27, Gentian (Gentianella bellidifolia) – about the size of daffodils, except white, gracious and growing among...
Alpine Flower a Day: Common grass tree, inaka
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 23, Common grass tree, inaka (Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium) – olive-orange spreading shrub with needle-leaves up...
Alpine Flower a Day: Sundew
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 21, Sundew (Drosera arcturi) – the hairy little insect-trapping fingers are about 3cm long – growing on the...
Alpine Flower a Day: Tāranga
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 20, Tāranga, Long-leafed pimelea (Pimelea longiflora) – rose-flushed clusters of tiny flowers in a bunch, each...
Alpine Flower a Day: Mountain foxglove
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 19, Mountain foxglove (Ourisia macrophylla) – little flowers on 50cm tall stalks with relatively big(macro)...
Alpine Flower a Day: Husbands load*
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 18, Husbands load, hari (likehimalotus mihusband) – very large blue flower, four white stems, leaves footprints,...
Alpine Flower a Day: Spencers Gentian
Alpine Flower a Day: Day. 17, Spencers Gentian (Gentianella spenceri) – flowers less than a centimetre – not called Little Gentian...
Alpine Flower a Day: Giant Speargrass
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 15, Giant speargrass, Spaniard, taramea (Aciphylla colensoi) – nearly tall as me, this one, and oh, what...
Alpine Flower a Day: Hatch's Sun Orchid
Alpine Flower a Day: Day 12, Hatch's Sun Orchid (Thelymitra hatchii) – about 6cm tall, flower about 1.5 cm wide – Jan 2020 1000-acre...
