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You would be surprised Ryan!! I feel like as Australians we are brought up to love our flora!! We even refer to flora in our National Anthem "Our land abound in Nature's gifts, in beauty rich and rare" ..
Australia upon entry is very strict with not bringing in foreign plants/ cuttings/ seeds etc as they can ruin our eco-systems and Australians are very supportive of this..
I feel in general we really love our native Plants & animals and will do what we can to protect them..
I've made a conscious effort to plant many many natives in my back & front yard!! In general the colours are so wild & vivid & beautiful...
I've done the same as you! Love that others are doing it too. Our flora is so very special & unique - so much so that I've read that the Sydney sandstone region, south west WA & South Africa Cape region has the most species of plants of anywhere in the world.
As a result of mass planting & encouraging seeding there are a lot of birds & small native creatures living in it. They're such a joy.
@@fishnchips8132 proof of that love is our cherished "Gardening Australia" which has been running for over 30 years.
Well done,a true blue are you as am I 🤣🤣
Ryan, 80% of our: plants, wildlife, reptiles and frogs are only found in Australia
Yeah we live in an alien country
@56music64
You probably meant ...and Amphibians are found Only in Australia.
What percentage are only found in Australia & PNG? ie the "sahul" continent
He forgot Flannel Flower and Waratah (Telopea). Can’t believe he didn’t mention them.
Also, he did pronounce Emu wrong. You are correct.
Flannel flowers have such wonderful fragrance 😊
The Sturt Desert pea is also a unique looking and striking flower.
Waratah the symbol of NSW. ❤
@@catherina2611the symbol of WA
Yes - I thought it was strange he mentioned two types of 'everlastings'/ paper flowers but didn't mention the waratah - state emblem of NSW!
Ryan, when Captain James Cook arrived on Australia’s east coast, he brought with him a botanist by the name of Sir Joseph Banks. Banks explored, drew, catalogued and named all of the plants he discovered. There are even volumes of his very detailed hand drawings! Among the plants he discovered, one genus was named the Banksia after Banks himself. There are Banksia bushes in all styles and colours. They look like a long brush on a stem. Not just one, but many Australian native plants required fire to open their seed pods.
Banksia do not need fire but as obligate seeders there only way to survive fire is via seed. This is evidenced by the fact my most banksia seed has a tail to help it fly away from it parent tree with the help of the breeze also when you see mature banksia trees you will always see open cones on the tree with all caplets open and the seed dispersed. They are a real thing of beauty I do bake cones slowly to release our local species seed in a more timely fashion but about 4 weeks in a brown paper bag in my drying rack and they open without the fire. What’s your local banksia? I’m in sth east Victoria I love marginata and integrafolia but I’m t seem west oz hit the jackpot.
And where Cook first landed at what later became Sydney is still called Botany Bay.
@@jeannettehope670 Never considered that; Australia was probably noted for its unusual flora before it was noted for its unusual animals. Something interesting to think about.
I had a Canadian friend here in Oz. She always said her biggest shock was at home in Canada, trees shed their leaves. She moved to Australia where the trees keep their leaves and shed their bark. After 20yrs here, the trees shedding their bark still amazed her.
We should all care about plants. We need them to survive. As a gardener l love them.
Especially the marijuana plant!
Same here
Soooo proud of my green thumb...
I ..Green up everywhere...
My Lil paradise patch is nearly 22 years old...
Won 2012 best small garden...in my area...
Sweetheart...
I am currently sneezing insanely...
Our wattle..bottlebrush and other beautiful plants are currently exploding....
It is EMU EMEW...like Knew...
I have a TEA TREE..and Bottlebrush
I have no animals currently, so my trees and plants are the closest I have to pets, and I love and care for them accordingly.
He omitted one of the most beautiful native flowers, Flannel Flower. The petals have a soft furry feel. One of my favourites.
Aussies are super huge gardeners. We all love our gardens and native plants.
This guy has a foreign accent which explains his pronunciation of emu. My favourite aussie flower is the wattle - gorgeous scent.
He said Banksia differently as well. He said it like Bunksia.
Americans tend to say e-moo, kinda like the zee-bra.. they have a tendency to try and rename animals they don’t actually have..
tho us Australians tend to use a hard E for coyote.
He has a heavy Brazilian accent.
@@monotonehell His name, as shown at the beginning, is Magno Barros. He is from Camp Grande, Brazil.
Yeah, he's not Australian
Soooo many more plants he didnt mention that you wont find anywhere else - bunya pine, wollemi pine, wreath flower, sturts desert pea, all of the western Australia wildflowers, 90% of the world's palms etc etc.
orchids, especially our ground orchids
Tea Tree is fantastic it is natures Antiseptic , Those bloody Cockatoos and Corellas love that Bottle Brush
There is a problem with gum trees when you have had a long drought and then you get heavy rain they drop branches and they are referred to as widow makers as people have been killed as they are very large trees
Another problem with gums is they are shallow rooted. During really heavy rain they are inclined to fall over (usually on your house), if the canopy is very
large. They are not suitable for urban gardens. I call them giant weeds, they should only be grown in large parks, or left in the bush.
They are very magnificent trees.
My American cousins came to Australia for a visit and were fascinated by our native flora. I just take it for granted, but seeing it through their eyes made me realise how truly unique it is. If you have sensitive sinuses, beware of wattle time - it slams my hay fever into high gear.
It's been hot here lately and the smell of the nearby bushland makes it worth being alive. That combination of Eucalyptus leaves and wattle blossom is just beautiful and brings back childhood memories.
And it's not just one plant that needs fire to germinate. There are quite a lot of native Aussie plants that either need direct bushfire heat or smoke in order for the seeds to be released and/or to break dormancy and allow germination to commence.
I live near the rainforest up north, I don’t like the smell. 😁 But we have gimpy gimpy plants here ow
I wonder what bushfires smell like in other countries, I bet it’s really different of course. Ours smell like home to me (unfortunately I guess). Always good to find out it’s just burn offs huh. I think a bad season is coming this year :(
This is why we get ready for bush fire season.. prepare our properties, we have fire bans, farmers up here are careful what tools & machinery they use.
We use to back burn, greenies tried to stop it & then we now know why the indigenous people back burn,... so we now back burn again... we have special fire tracks & learn at a young age about respecting bush & bush fire safety
At our front gate we have a 350 year old Gum Tree [a River Gum] - an Arborist dated it after some branches were removed without our permission and we needed him to fix the botched cuts made. We have wonderful medicinal and edible plants . Almost every Aussie kid grew up with the stories of the Big Bad Banksia Men in May Gibbs' "Cuddlepot and Snugglepie" books about the gumnut babies. Another great Australian book series for your son.
*Snugglepot & Cuddlepie ❤
and to clarify for Ryan, those "alien things" on the first one are the gumnuts that the gumnut babies live in
I'm surprised that the grass trees "Xanthorrhoea" didn't make the list- they also require fire to propagate.
My favourite Australian native flower would have to be the flannel flower "Actinotus Helianthi" the petals are unusually furry and it smells strongly of sherbet.
By the way Tea Tree Oil (#1) is useful for preventing mold, virus and bacteria build-up in your air conditioner. It's a natural biocide and also kills dust mites. You can get tea tree oil sprays that not only kill the nasties in your a/c system and prevent biofilm build-up, they also make your room smell lovely!
Yes, I have asthma and use Tea Tree and Eucalyptus oils daily!
@Robwvideo oh the smell.... i could use it as cologne. Always puts a smile on my face. :)
If you really want to learn a lot about Australian plants and their usage, you should watch some videos by a fellow named Les Hiddens, AKA The Bush Tucker Man. He is ex army and used to teach Australian bush craft and survival. Absolutely well worth the time.
Here's shows can be found here on TH-cam and they are very entertaining as they contain not only the bush tucker plants which Les is so interested in, but also they have a lot of history about early Australian explorers, historians and even convict stories. Well, worth the watch Ryan.
I loved watching him when I was a little tacker.
Loved the guitar background and theme music. Major Les is a living legend
I hope he sees this and does a video on Bushtucker Man.
Oh, I remember watching his videos. I even got to meet him at a reserve as a little girl. I still have a photo of that. Very chill guy.
The Wollemi Pine tree is Australia's rarest tree. It survived the dinosaur age. It is highly protected and has been propagated to ensure it's survival. When it was discovered there were only about 20 in total. Its location is secret to protect it. If there is a eucalyptus near you pick a leaf and crush it and smell the eucalyptus oil.
Hmm, is that right? The Purple Wattle is....like...found in one place...
There are over 700 species of Wattle. There is one species that is found in one tiny spot on the top of Mount Buffalo near where my sister and brother-in-law live. There is only one species of Wollemi. @@GreyDingo
Cloned Wollemis are available now to the public.
Is this in the blue mountains? There's an area there that is kept in secret like you said. Last bush fires we had they had to save that area.
@@perryschafer5996 That's right. As soon as the govt got seeds they gave them to all the state botanic gardens and now for the general public. The plan is to make sure they survive the human age. (weird looking trees though)
There is nothing boring about our beautiful flora. Aussies are proud of our flora as well as our fauna. Each state is represented by its own plant emblem. NSW is the beautiful Waratah.
Our Dear Ryan..Myself (I'm white)and Three of my Aboriginal mates are watching your very cool content..And we have tried most of these plants and they are very yummy...Johno in Innisfail North Queensland about 100km South of Cairns..A small town with a population of 8000.. Love watching all of your posts ❤❤
One of the reasons that California has such bad wildfires is the abundance of Eucalyptus trees growing there now.
Sounds like a Brit with a foreign accent to Britain
That's crap because eucalypts are less flammable than pine trees. By the way fires are actually caused by high temperatures low humidity and fuel loads. It's called climate change. Ps Gum trees don't self combust either, look up the real facts. I was a crew leader( remote area fire fighter) for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Just saying..
How did they get there??? AMERICA HAS ALWAYS HAD HORRIFIC WILDFIRES.
He's definitely not British @@troycunningham8645
THE woolemie pine was supposed to be exist for 250million years. REMEMBER NOT TO TOUCH THE gympie gympie plant. plants in Aust flower in winter so to live through the harsh long summer. Aust is the CONTINENT THAT TIME FORGOT.
Bullshit.
Those dates are totally wrong.
That timeline is bunk
Australia's tallest trees are Gum trees that stand 100 ( over 330 ft ) metres . We have a couple of species capable of growing in excess of of 300 ft . In Australia's colonial past many trees of over 300ft were chopped down . EDIT - Ghost gums , River gums are known as widow makers due to them dropping large branches without warning on unsuspecting campers .
Particularly large in Tasmania!
It is Eemyou, you are right, Ryan. This fella has an accent. He says Bunksia, it is Banksia. But, we are ok with accents really, since Oz is made up of people from all around the world. And these days, many Oz people rip out foreign flora to replace it with natives because it helps sustain the indigenous wildlife.
Sounds like he has a Dutch or Belgian accent.
@@elowishusmirkatroid4898he’s Brazilian
yup, next video he should do on the Australian wildlife that lives alongside us in our gardens
@@elowishusmirkatroid4898 lol, it's more like Brazilian/American/Canadian/Aussie... A little bit of this, a little bit of that. But i did realize i mispronounced it after having recorded/edited the video. Yes, it's pronoucced EEMYOU! I almost lost my drone flying over them... one tried to knock it down...
@@SO50fun You have a unique and difficult to identify accent. My apologies and no offense intended. Love your work.
I have never commented before but want to say I enjoy your channel. Your curiosity and respect is lovely. I hope you get to visit Australia one day. My favourite of our flowers is the flannel flower...grows in sandy soil and has white petals that feel Ike velvet. Very elegant
The banksia cones can be used for getting rid of mosquitoes. Set dry cones alight and they burn slowly with the smoke being repellent to mosquitoes. Put say four around your campfire area and mosquitoes won't be a bother.
I didnt know this, I kust like the scent they make when you put them on the fire.
Hey Ryan, there are way more interesting natural plants to look at in Oz for example: fingers limes. There was a chef (an untimely death earlier this year) a Scottish bloke named Jock Zonfrelli, who opened a restaurant in Adelaide, Australia, highlighting food from flora of the bush - amazing menu. He went into the outback and spent time with our first nation's people to learn about how they existed in such harsh and arid areas. Check him out, he hosted the World's best Masterchef show in Melbourne. Also, when visiting my parents in North Queensland we go harvesting for leaves from shrubs/small trees to make 'bush medicine'. It tastes terrible but geez it cleans from the inside out and you wake up the next day feeling detoxified and fresh from the boiled leaves. It's true food is medicine and I prefer this to supplements when have access to it.
*Jock Zonfrillo.
And no you typically don’t walk around and witness the flowers literally opening up in front of your eyes because that takes hours hahah but yes you can somewhat gauge the time depending on if the flowers are open or not if you really needed.
Paper flowers are dope, they just last forever in a dried bouquet. As cool as the closing up when wet thing is, as an Aussie, I usually notice it's started raining when I start getting rained on.
Google Aussie flora or put gum or eucalyptus flowers into an image search, they can be so vibrant and beautiful, and some gum leaves and flowers are surprisingly huge! There's a famous author/illustrator from our past called May Gibbs, and she wrote a series of books centred around two characters Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, (and various friends), almost all of them anthropomorphised Australian flora, and some fauna. She drew wattle and gum flowers as toddlers, called them gumnut babies. There were the evil banksia men. Anyway, the art is quite quaint and also a nice way to see some of our flora illustrated.
There are a number of plants that require fire to seed, here and all over the world. The problem with bushfires, outside of the whole 'dangerous fire' thing, is that with climate change, especially in a place that can be quite dry, the fires are becoming very intense and much hotter. Plants that seed or rejuvenate after a bushfire do so within a certain temperature range. If the fire burns too hot, it kills the plants. We have had some catastrophic bushfires in recent years (and also well in our past), and one of the issues faced after those fires was that the bush was not coming back to life. Usually after a fire, you start to see green shoots, the bush starts to regrow, allowing surviving animals to eat much sooner. But in the last few years we've had to 'seed bomb' our burnt forests and do food drops for local wildlife because the intensity of the fire overtook everything.
As an aside, I wouldn't recommend licking any nectar flowers like that guy did, unless you really enjoy licking pre-licked flowers. Birds get up before you do, and they will revisit the same tree and same flowers multiple times a day and just lick every square inch lol. Dude got a side of bird-spit.
And possum spit from the night before
once an hour a noisy miner comes to my grevillia. I have a security camera that catches it in the background & was watching the footage from that for a different reason one day & found every hour the noisy miner came in to feed again from the same flowers. The other day, a young lorikeet came in & tried to eat from it, noisy saw it & came in & chased it off :( Must have been watching IT'S flowers from the nearby trees between feeds I think
Ryan, if you suffer badly from hay fever then this could be a problem for you - as it is for many people. Pollen in Australia can be extreme in the spring. For example, where I live, when the wind blows and pollen disperses, it looks like a veritable snow storm. So be warmed if you ever do come to our sunny shores. Spring and autumn are the best times of the year (at least for me) because of the beautiful displays of colour, might like to come in summer instead. Having said that, the wildflower season, especially in Western Australia would rank as the best in the world.
The main cause of asthma is pollen from grass species. These are wind pollinated so a LOT of pollen is blowing around in the air. Insect pollinated flowers such as several shown here are not so much of a problem.
@@jeannettehope670 Indeed. When I moved to Sydney from Perth my hay fever completely disappeared. It must, as you point out, be due to the much higher levels of grass pollen in the latter, which certainly the case when the dry, easterly winds blow in from the interior of Western Australia - either from the wheat belt in the south or the desert region to the north. Cheers.
I'm a keen Gardener and Horticulturist. I enjoyed that! If you have allergies mate, you are going to love Wattle!🤘🇦🇺🤧😷
Mum hates Wattle
Oh my mum couldn't tolerate wattle ! And boronia gave her migraines.
@@nolasyeila6261 my mum too. I bought home a massive bunch of wattle for mother's day as a kid and put her in hospital with a pretty gnarly asthma attack. Oops. Luv u Mum ❤️
I have a bottle brush in my backyard and the birds love it but the bees go crazy for it
Cootamundra Wattle, or more specifically Acacia Baileyana, is my favourite Australian Tree/Flower/Shrub/Bush.
When it flowers, you know that spring is almost here.
I lived in Tasmania for 20 years on 8 acres of land full of a huge variety of typical Australian trees etc and am now back in my home state of Queensland where I've lived 37 years and I just absolutely love Australian trees and plants. My dad used to have a herb ( erb ) nursery and the scents coming from it was just so sweet and over powering but it was so beautiful to live in.
Another rare beauty is the Bunya Pine. Such an amazing feeling to be in the mountains with them 💚
And the actual nut tastes delicious roasted
Some Qld national parks are closed when the nuts are ripe because they're so large they'd kill you if they hit you.
In the US, don't you have giant redwoods? In California they are up to 11 meters wide!
I hope he tries to be a bit sillier than he is for laughs 🥰
Ryan, mate. This vid just made me think of the children’s books “snugglepot and cuddlepie”, “possum magic”, and “wombat stew”.. 3 books that almost every Australian child grew up reading/ having it read to them..
I’m know bluey has taken the mantle now, but they are great children’s books starring Australian flora and fauna.
I sent the book to Ryan. Did he get it???? He never said!!!!! Snuggle pot and cuddle pie.
@@michaelfreedman1006 doing the work of legends.. I hope he got it and his little one can enjoy it too when the time is right
Eucalypts are flowering plants, and are subdivided into Gum, Box-Ironbark, Mallee and Stringybark. So that is how they look...
Western Australia has around 12,000 species of wildflowers. People come from around the world to do tours during wildflower season - July to September. There’s nothing like seeing an acres of everlastings swaying in the breeze. I love driving up Indian Ocean Drive north from Perth and seeing xanthorrhoea (grass trees) in their thousands for mile after mile, it takes them 100 years to grow one metre and some of them you see are almost three metres tall. Grass trees th-cam.com/video/Gh5Rg7ROra8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f9ZJ66atRFCbqzLU
We have some amazing native plants and trees that didn’t show up in this video. I definitely recommend you looking for another video, or just check out some photos. Keep up the great content. 👍
Waratah and Gymea Lily are worth a look at. Yes lots of Australian trees need fire to germinate only humans are affected by fire. Animals as well.
There's birds up in the NT that enjoy fire - it stirs up wildlife that are hiding so they can catch them. They like it so much that if there is not enough fire around, they sometimes find a smouldering stick from the edge of a dying fire and carry it off to set a new one elsewhere
My whole garden is drought resistant, native to the area plants. One season to establish and then no watering👍👍👍
In a state with severe water restrictions over summer (Perth), it's the best way.
All have flowers at different flowering times of the year and and extremely low maintenance, a bit of yearly pruning for some.
I have most of these plants, plus more...too easy❤👍👍🇭🇲
The world’s tallest flowering plant is the Australian mountain Ash tree, which can grow to well over 300ft, and would make that “huge” tree look like a sapling 😁.
Ryan, the worst hayfever i have ever had was in Western Australia in Spring. They have an amazing array of wildflowers there! Not so great when you have allergies. ( i was a kid then, way before i was aware of antihistamines. My eyes, throat and nose were red raw from the itching and sneezing non stop.) But, the bushland looks absolutely stunning!
I have avoided visiting Western Australia in Spring, it has some overwhelming allergens! But climbing in Tasmania, my asthma etc barely existed and the scenic climbs were a genuine pleasure! 😊
I have quite a few of those plants in my garden which brings in so many different birds. Some of them smell divine!
My favourite is flowering now on the road verges. A little scruffy plant with the most glorious sky blue flowers. It is called "Leschenaultia". The flowers are small, but abundant and the bushes attract attention at a distance.
My garden is 99% Australian Native they are magnificent plants.
These are my favourite kinds of videos you do
Got a bottlebrush out the back here, the honey eaters and other birds love them. As for being on a farm, along the driveway are different variety of eucalyptus trees in which you get to see the odd koala in them (as they make a grunting sound). The "alien" pods are what we call gum nuts are what the blossoms grow from. The Banksias remind me of the Banksia Men characters from the Snugglepot and Cuddlepie books (see if you can get a copy).
My favourite tree is the Silver Gum. The branches and gum-nuts look as though they’re painted silver. Bright red flowers. Imagine…just like a painting.
This is a surprisingly TOP post! It’s a real eye opener for someone emigrating or just visiting here. As the Plants are just as unique as the Wildlife!! NSW in Oz
well said @nswinoz3302
The tree with the flexible bark is known locally in Australia as paper bark. I have baked native fresh water fish caught while camping by wrapping them in layers of paper bark and then placing the parcel on the hot coals of a campfire. Nature's own foil wrap, only better for the environment.
The bottlebrush DOES have nectar that is very sweet, it's just all the way in the base of the flower - but if you smack it upon your hand you'll get some out (there's not much in there but its enough for a good taste) 😁
Don't pay too much attention to the way he pronounces plant names, he has a strange accent. Banksia is pronounced like 'bank', not 'bunk'. Otherwise all the info is good. I have a bottlebrush in my front garden, they're beautiful when in flower. I was really surprised that he didn't mention the golden wattle. It's so iconic that it's on the Australian coat of arms underneath the kangaroo and emu.
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the “Macadamia”. Very famous for its roasted nuts.
Australia's national floral emblem is the golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha Benth). When in flower, the golden wattle displays the national colours, green and gold.
th-cam.com/video/bmDn_ylDO3o/w-d-xo.html
No. 11, the Lemon Scented Ti-tree - is a Leptospermum. It produces a honey via the European honeybee that is a stiff jelly & is very medicinal. It can heal wounds, treat bronchial infections & is highly valued. It is marketed as 'jellybush' honey in Australia & New Zealand has another variety that produces what they call Manuka honey - also medicinal. There is one variety of Leptospermum in NZ & about 83 varieties in Australia. Tastes eucalyptus.
He left out my favourite tree the mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) they are the tallest flowering plants on earth and are amazing to see in person the tallest one recorded is ~100m tall (~328ft)
Australia is a multicultural nation. The gentlemen has a strong (non traditional) accent, more power to him. You understanding of the pronunciation of EMU is correct.
I have grown up with all of these plants. I can remember the first time I went to the UK and went on a walk through a sanctuary area and the almost giddy feeling at not knowing the names or functions of most of the plants around me. Felt completely cut off from my surroundings. The only plants I recognised were noxious weeds where I came from. Blackberries - just growing wild. In primary school we were taught to recognise them so that we could tell a responsible adult about them to initiate an eradication program in the area (they grew more than enthusiastically in farmland in the SW of Western Australia- took over everything, pulled fences and buildings down.).
Funny how when they are all put together in one video - the beauty of this country is magnificent. Spring time here is an amazing mass of colour. Yes fires are good but not to the extent that cause the huge vast of devastation. Thanks for being interested in our land down under Ryan.
That moment of horror when you learn that tea tree oil comes from some of the native plants I've been around my whole life 😨 im allergic to it. Also that last bit was super confusing with the paper bark. I always thought paper bark trees were a type of gum tree. Apparently they are from the same family the tea tree plant is from but it's not the one people get the oil from.
Paperbark trees are Melaleuca, in the myrtle family.
Also great to line hanging baskets & the bees love the bottlebrush-like flowers. 👍
they are the same tree
He only considered plants he has access to on the East Coast.
Royal Hakea is found only in a small pocket of Western Australia, if he could video this it surely would have been in the list
I had a little chuckle to myself when you commented on how the guy was pronouncing Australian words - he has, in fact, a non-Australian accent, so of course his pronunciation was a little off- but you did pick that up, so well done you!
Look up the book series of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. It taught me quite a bit about our flora when I was young.
And, yes, there are loads of gum/eucalyptus varieties, all with different flowers, leaves and gumnuts. There's one gum tree where you can take a few of the leaves, put them in a bowl of warm water, and after a few minutes they give off a soap so you can wash your hands whilst in the bush.
I love the Everlastings ( Paper) daisies. So many varieties sizes and colours
Wattle day is the 1st of September. Once, states all had different days for wattle day. Now it’s a national day. NSW used to have it on the 1st of August but everyone knows that is the ‘horses birthday’.
We're coming into wildflower season now, the blooms are so beautiful to see. ☮️
He mispronounced emu. 😶
I really enjoyed that..as an Aussie I learnt a few things..we'll done
This is really cool Ryan. I own a retail nursery, so I find your reaction to our plants really interesting. Our plants are pretty out there. That being said, North America is home to some of my absolute favourite trees. Oaks and Maples are quite popular in people's gardens here.
It looked like your allergies were flaring just watching our plants! You make me laugh in a good way 😁
My favourite is the elusive Chocloate lilys that grow in the bush near my parents farm. The flowers smell like a chocolate milkshake
Everything he showed I have growing in my garden. It’s full of natives and a couple of imports that blend in.
Men that are into flowers are generally nice unless you mess with their flowers😂
I’d say most Australians would know ALL of these plants! 🌱
I think it is his accent that threw you off with "emu", his website is in Brazil. From his English language website:
I’m Brazilian and Canadian by nationality and Australian by residence.
Gum trees can be so huge, because they are often hundreds of years old. Many, if not most suburbs, (but not the horrid new ones with no greenery) like where I live are lucky enough to have lots and lots of them, because we often have 1 or 2 in our gardens and also lots of parks. But they are also known to drop their branches which can be very dangerous. Last year three was an almighty crack, a huge thud, the whole house shook and the windows rattled loudly… in the park next door a big branch had come off which was over 2 metres across where it snapped off. As big as the trunk of a good sized other tree maybe. Luckily nobody was killed, just one kid in the park but not hurt.
Yeah you can use the bark to bandage up the spider bite you get from pulling the bark off the tree…
I sat and watched a bloodwood today - we have trees that bleed
Boab tree is a personal favourite but it's only found up north around the Kimberley. Moreton Bay figs are pretty cool trees here too and more widespread.
We have many plants that need fire to propergate. Some need to be eaten by an emu. Our plants are very unique.
My favourite is the gastrolobiums (pea flowers that are poisonous)
Some of the white gums are also called widow makers as they drop their giant limbs randomly.
Looks like he is in Western Australia. The flora of that State is unique and varies with the local soil. If ever you get the chance do a WAWildflower Tour. Time it for about a week after good spring rain. The whole landscape, brown or red sand prior to the rain, now becomes a wonderful carpet of colour. Just awesome!
Every climatic niche has its own group of simply amazing unique Australian flora.
We are certainly blessed with colourful diversity in this country.
Well there you go Ryan, more people have watched this in 7 hrs than watched the expansion of the American military video of yesterday. Guess we like plants more than you thought 😊. It's always great to see these flowers out in the bush, great for photographing!! And they smell awesome, wattle is so good, but there are some real stinkers as well😅
There are whole parts of the Australian bush that are centered around the regular bush fires. So long as they are not too intense, the fire causes the bush to regenerate and some specific plants need the fire to 'crack' their seed pods. This gives the plants the best environment to start to grow, since most of the competing plants have been burnt back.
Spent my entire life studying and working in plant conservation downunder we are blessed in everyway
I love Australia so much as it is unlike anywhere else. We seem to take it for granted until you see something like this.
I really enjoyed that too, so relaxing! I’m an Aussie... reminded me of my kids discovering the nectar 😊
@julieosborne2948 that nectar is so incredible... which other plant does that? Only in Oz!!
I love the smell of the Australian bush. And the colours especially when it rains it is heavenly.
Ryan you must get to my country. But do pack your antihistamines you might need them!
I wondered if Indiana has a floral emblem and I see it is the peony - a beautiful flower! In Western Australia, ours is the kangaroo paw. My favourite Aussie wildflower would be blue leschenaultia.. gorgeous colour.
3 famous plants in Aus are the Cooktown Orchard & the Byfield fern. They can only be found in Qld (Queensland). My favourite tree is the Jacaranda, it's beautiful purple flowers.
The Jacaranda is from South America and the Ponsiana is from Madagascar but both of them are planted together as street trees in many places here and are absolutely spectacular to see and so familiar in the streetscapes here that many people think they are Australian.
I think Australian native trees are unusual also in not dropping their leaves in winter. So well behaved! 😊
Hi Ryan. Look up Gymea lily. One stem up to twenty feet high, with a bribht red flower on top, up to about twenty inches wide. Spactular!
Ryan, you should look for a 'Snugglepot and Cuddlepie' book for Jace - they are the gum nut babies (the nuts of the gum tree). Aussie classic. It also has the big, bad banksia men based on the banksia plant.
Okay, I just have to say. I watch so many of your videos and I also found this relaxing. I must send you through some dream time videos. But Ryan, I just loce your face expressions, your comments and your fascination with Australia. I really enjoy your channel. And I hope one day you get down here. I am sure there would be a lot of people who would want to show you and your family around, including me.
If you want bee's in your garden, plant a bottlebrush. Those things are always full of bee's.
He didn't talk about our plants that want to kill you, like the Gympie Gympie tree. AKA the suicide tree. It has fine spines on its large broad leaves that are impossible to get out. Apparently it feels like being electrocuted and dipped in acid at the same time. Legend has it that during WWII a new lieutenant was leading his troops on an exercise before going to fight the Japanese, and after attending to some business used one of the broad leaves to clean up. After hearing his screams his troops ran to him in time to see him end his suffering with his revolver.
It's not only the pain. What makes it even more unbearable is that the torture last for an extremely long time.
Many forest trees last a long time and young trees can't get enough light. But if the seeds wait until a fire has burnt out the area not only do they get plenty of sunlight they get plenty of furtile ash to grow in as well.
Hard to walk past a gum tree and pull off a leaf,crush it and then smell the eucalypt.
Australia has so many beautiful plants. My favourites are probably the state emblem where I live, the Sturt Desert Pea; and the Illawarra flame tree. It's also always so nice to walk along the coast and see the pigs face flowers.
I enjoyed this niche video btw 😊
Thought id include our native grass trees like the zanthorea or balga and the west australian christmas tree known as moodyar