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Heartened by the recent discovery of a confirmed ruby seadragon, which I had given to an enthusiastic lady on the beach, I thought that next time I was in Hopetoun, I would look through the ones I had previously collected. I read the Stiller, Wilson & Rouse paper and convinced myself that this also is a ruby seadragon. I don't know when I collected it or exactly where but it was well before this website began. This means that 20% of the seadragons I have found over the last 8 years have been ruby seadragons.
Photos Leonie Rennie

Field Notes - Magnificent 375+ year old Flooded Gum which still stands in part due to the efforts of vigorous senior citizens that know the offensive use of the umbrella and walking stick and have defended the tree from successive shire CEOs that have thought it would be easier to remove it.
Home to all of my next 17 sightings! Would be more but the lizards are quick and there is a lot of tree to hide in.

This grows in the Eucalypt under-story in the leaf-layer. I call it a "thumb pine" because it resembles a pine tree in miniature, and is about the size of my thumb. No idea what it is, but it is very common.

One of several Chiloscyphus species with teeth on outer leaf margin (images 6 & 7 show detail). This species also has a distinctive odour. The under leaves are widely bi-lobed with an additional tooth per lobe (image 5). They also connected to the main leaves on both sides which can also be seen on image 5 while the dissection process means only one side connection remains on images 8 & 9. You can also see this connection on the right side of image 10. Image 11 shows detail of the under leaf teeth and you can see the small trigones between the cells of the main leaf in the final image.

Height: 10 cm
Diameter: 2 cm
Status: Indigenous
Habitat: Fern gully
Other spp: Hedycarya angustifolia, Dicksonia antarctica, Pomaderris aspera, Polystichum proliferum, Blechnum parrisiae, mosses & liverworts

Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 3552 & M.E.French.

Tree 12 metres tall, others up to 20 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout, pale grey over powdery white over pink. Leaves discolorous, glossy above, green. Population of at least 200 trees in gully of white gritty sand between granite boulders, growing with Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata subsp. marginata.

Unvouchered observation growing at D.Nicolle 8005 & M.E.French.

Growing in mallee shrubland on slight broad rise of white sand over orange clay with Eucalyptus connexa, E. eremophila, E. incrassata and E. tumida.

Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 3514 & M.E.French.

Tree 9 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout, powdery white over pink, with some attached brown flakes. Leaves very slightly discolorous, glossy, green. Flowers white. Growing on grey sandy flat with Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata subsp. marginata.

Adult leaf of F1 with transmitted light, scale bar 1 cm long.

Tree of poor form, 8 metres tall. Bark rough throughout, moderately fissured, grey over brown. Leaves discolorous, glossy above, dark green. Flowers cream. Growing on orange laterite hillside with Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata.