FLORA

NAME
Sea-nymph
seagrasss

Ecklonia Radiata

Rhodolith

Red Algae

IMAGE

FACT
Sea-nymph seagrass
meadows are
nurseries for baby
sea animals,
providing shelter and
protection from
bigger animals and
food to help them
grow.
Ecklonia radiata is
used in fertilizer
products, personal
care products,
shampoos,
conditioners, day
creams, night
creams, toners,
scrubs, and washes.
Unlike coral,
rhodoliths do not
attach themselves to
the rocky seabed.
Rather, they drift like
tumbleweeds along
the seafloor until
they grow heavy
enough to settle and
form brightly colored
beds
Red algea gets it
colour from a veriaty
of pigments the most
important pigment is
phycoerythrin, which
provides the algae's
red pigmentation by
reflecting red light
and absorbing blue
light

Anemone

Honey suckle

Brown kelp seaweed

Their bodies are

composed of an
adhesive pedal disc,
or foot, a cylindrical
body, and an array of
tentacles
surrounding a central
mouth
Honeysuckle has
been found useful in
alleviating rashes
ranging from skin
diseases to poison
oak . For these types
of skin ailments,
honeysuckle is best
used as a poultice
Brown kelp seaweed
is thought to have
appeared in the
Miocene, 23 to 5
million years ago

Coast swainson pea

This delicate pea

plant has sprawling
stems of paired,
divided leaves and
produces stalklets
with up to 20 deep
purple flowers.

Coast Banksia

The flower heads are

made up of hundreds
(sometimes
thousands) of tiny
individual flowers
grouped together in
pairs
Native to coastal
areas of New South
Wales, Victoria and
Tasmania. That
means that it really
does have pretty
good coastal
tolerance

Correa

Sweet wattle

Moonah

The Acacia genus,

which includes all the
wattles, is the
biggest group of
trees and shrubs in
Australia, topping
even the eucalypts in
diversity.
Coastal Moonah
Woodlands once
covered
approximately
12,978 ha of coastal
Victoria

Coast Daisy Bush

Most identifiable by
its height of up to 2
meters high.

Tussock grass

ussocks usually grow

to a height of 30
40cm and a width of
30cm depending on
its location and
management

Gum tree

The tree can grow to

375-480 feet (125160 meters)