Lambertia formosa 031026-1237

Description:

Blue Mountains National Park west of Sydney, New South Wales. Woodford Range about 2 km south of park entrance gate at Glenbrook.This species always has 7 flowers in each head, surrounded by bracts of varying length, green toward the tips. Genus Lambertia has 9 species in Western Australia and only this one in the east -- a New South Wales endemic. The 2-horned woody fruits earned it the common name "Mountain Devil".