Hibbertia banksii, Collected by Banks & Solander in 1770,
Living specimen of one of the Banks Florilegium prints on display in Natures Powerhouse in the Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery. The Banks Florilegium exhibition contains 15 of these prints from the copper engravings made by Joseh Banks in the 1700's from Sydney Parkinson's botanical illustrations of the plants they collected on the Endeavour River in June 1770.
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The amazing bugs (not beatles) are clustered under leaves. They seem to be resting or maybe socializing.
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Red flowering Bromeliad | Blood Red Tassel Flower (Calliandra haematocephala), has these powder puff flowers all over the shrub. |
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