{"id":6745,"date":"2021-02-11T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2024-12-09T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:42:47","slug":"pink-flannel-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/pink-flannel-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Flannel Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pink Flannel Flowers are truly amazing, every one of them looks like a delicate jewel brooch. While there are many places to see them, this spot is handy and accessible. Each flower is a bit smaller than a 20c piece.<\/p>\n

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“On a stony, bushfire-ravaged slope overlooking a Blue Mountains valley near Katoomba, NSW, ultra-rare pink flannel flowers bloom in their thousands, bringing new life and colour to landscape still charred by the fiery summer of 2019\/20.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pink flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) only occur in scattered parts of eastern Australia, from the Blue Mountains to north-eastern Victoria. They favour heath and open forest areas at altitude. While not endangered as a species, they appear so infrequently that many bushwalkers have never seen them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The seeds can lay dormant for years on end, waiting for a special confluence of events forming the right conditions for their emergence \u2013 a year or so after bushfire followed by rainfall, which is exactly what the flower\u2019s home turf experienced last year.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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MORE<\/strong> info: https:\/\/www.australiangeographic.com.au\/…\/rare-pink…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

FACEBOOK<\/strong> post: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AskRozBlueMountains\/posts\/3764010056975720<\/a><\/div>\n
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