Singleton Beach Botany


Native Wisteria - Coral Pea
https://perthwildflowers.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/native-wisteria-3/

Spyridium globulosum, the basket bush, is a shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia where it occurs on coastal dunes and in limestone areas. It grows to between 0.6 and 5 metres in height and produces white flowers between June and November in its native range.
https://perthwildflowers.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/basket-bush/

Some of the plants we looked at are from overseas;
sea spinach out competes the spinifex

Some of the plants we looked at are considered to be weeds;
https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/euphorbia_paralias.htm
http://www.pestandweeds.com/weed-profiles/weed-herbs/gazania/
Spinifex hirsutus Labill.

and some times they don't know what to think;
http://beachcombers-kit.fish.wa.gov.au/species-list/seagrasses-and-algae/fibre-ball/

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