The growth of this tough climber was rampant for a couple of years after the January 2020 fire. Kennedia flowers festooned the standing trunks of dead trees throughout the forest. It has since settled back to pre-fire level, and now just provides decorative touches of colour here and there. Big and red, they're favoured by birds rather than bees. Eastern Spinebills and Yellow-faced Honeyeaters love them!

Kennedia rubicunda

Approaching peak pink, when Austral Indigo adorns the shrub layer with sprays of delicate pea flowers.

Indigofera australis

The genus is reportedly under revision, so names and groupings may change. For now, this is the third of our Pultenaea species to flower this spring.

Pultenaea retusa (link to iNaturalist record)