The land of Straya has unusual landscapes.
This is our best selfie. You may spot an animal if you look carefully.
The xanthorrhoea, which sounds like an uncomfortable infection, is the grass tree, which has exceedingly pleasing symmetry. However, if you touch it, which is hard to resist, it will try to cut you. It's known for its ability to resist fires and droughts.
The xanthorrhoea, which sounds like an uncomfortable infection, is the grass tree, which has exceedingly pleasing symmetry. However, if you touch it, which is hard to resist, it will try to cut you. It's known for its ability to resist fires and droughts.
Got dirty bottles? The bottlebrush plant's flowers want to help. They turn into a seedy pinecone looking things after a while.
Ah, zen-ful symmetry.
Gum tree seed pod, which is in fact not Strayan, I think, despite them having gum tree songs.
Here's a vermillion waxcap mushroom, which knows it's cute.
But my absolute favourite Strayan plant is this one, taller than traffic lights. They should put it on their coat of arms, except the Emu and Kangaroo would be dwarfed.
Thank you to Pat for helping me to identify the giant spear lily (gymea lily), whose rosette can grow up the 5m in height, and its leaves 3m. Look at that rosette action!
These plants gave us the idea that Straya should grow the similar-looking agave in their arid lands to make tequilla-like hipster agave spirit. But then we found out that they already do.
Given our lack of plant knowledge, we went back to the city.
Here, they had fancy drinking fountains with doggie spouts. Very nice, but not suited for cold climates.
