Alice Springs Desert Park
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Set against the wonderful backdrop of the West MacDonnell Ranges and Mount Gillen, the Alice Springs Desert Park is packed full of examples of arid desert plant life, many of which form part of the Indigenous cornucopia of bush medicine and bush tucker.
Here you can check out some of our flora images from our many visits and interaction at the amazing Alice Springs Desert Park.
- Batswing Coral Tree (Erythrina vespertilio)
- Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus gamophylla)
- Bush Banana (Marsdenia australis)
- Buttercup Pigweed (Portulaca intraterranea)
- Dead Finish (Acacia tetragonophylla)
- Desert Grevillea (Grevillea juncifolia)
- Desert Oaks (Allocasuarina decaisneana)
- Field Lily (Crinum angustifolium)
- Georges Indigo (Indigofera georgei)
- Honey Grevillea (Grevillea eriostachya)
- Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra)
- Native Apricot (Pittosporum angustifolium)
- Parrot Pea (Crotalaria cunninghamii)
- Pink Everlasting (Schoenia cassiniana)
- Poached Egg Daisy (Polycalymma stuartii)
- Potato Vine (Ipomoea costata)
- Quandong (Santalum acuminatum)
- Red-bud Mallee (Eucalyptus pachyphylla)
- Red Mulga (Acacia cyperophylla)
- Resurrection Fern (Cheilanthes lasiophylla)
- Sandover Lily (Crinum flaccidum)
- Sturt’s Desert Pea, (Swainsona formosa)
- Waddy-wood (Acacia peuce)
- Walukara (Hakea rhombales)
- White Spider Flower (Grevillea albiflora)
- Wild Passionfruit (Capparis spinosa var. nummularia)



















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