Common along the Great North Walk track around Cowan.
Common along the Great North Walk track around Cowan.
Common along the Great North Walk track around Cowan.
Common along the Great North Walk track around Cowan.
Common along the Great North Walk track around Cowan.
1.0 Australia
1.1 New South Wales, ssp tenuirostris
Cowan, Great Northern Walk, common in heath areas, 200 m, photo, 27 March 2024.
On Black Perry Mountain, which is composed of metamorphic skarn rock. "Skarns tend to be rich in calcium-magnesium-iron-manganese-aluminium silicate minerals, which are also referred to as calc-silicate minerals" (Wikipedia).
Note that these photographs were taken in December 2009.
Location accurate only to about 500 metres.