I never know much about flora and fauna.
In my retirement, I have taken a couple of talks in identifying local tree species but I am still a dummy on flora and fauna.
I am fascinated by some of the photos on flora and fauna taken by my wife in the Milford Track.
They are nothing like what I have seen elsewhere.
Here are some of them for sharing!
I think I need to research into these.
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Great images–the first, third, and fourth are of fern species. In this early stage they are called “fiddleheads.”
Thank you for the sharing!
Those are some amazing plants.
Thank you!
So me of these shots remind me of what I saw on Tierre del Fuego.
Good to learn such similarity!
Is that the New Zealand track? Beautiful, lucky you to have been there. We have similar ferns in Australian rainforests.
Thanks for the sharing!
Wonderful post! These look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book!
Haha!
Beautiful photos of our native flora. I love ferns and have a lot of photos of them. They are so fascinating.
I like them too!
Lovely close ups of the fern fronds.
Thank you!
Great picture of ferns unfurling–pretty hard to know all the plants– there are so many! And my head spins when trying to look them up 🙂
They are wonderful parts of our Nature!
How wonderful the fragrance must have been of the beautiful NZ forest. Beautiful Photos.
Yes, you can smell them in the air.
The curly things are varieties of fern. Extremely old. Billion years I think…
Yes, almost as old as the earth.
Amazing isn’t it? That a plant species could have survived 2 billion years? Blows my mind.
Blow my mind too!