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Once in a lifetime pink flowers emerge from burnt landscapes
15 ImagesLong-dormant pink flannel flowers spring to life in the Blue Mountains. The flowers, known as bushfire ephemerals because their seeds only germinate after fire, are blooming in formerly burnt landscapes from Katoomba to Lithgow and north to Newnes.
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A Bee lands on a Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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An aerial view of Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow, Australia. Pink flannel flowers, which are blooming in the area, are extremely rare and only grow in scattered parts of eastern Australia, from the Blue Mountains to north-eastern Victoria.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow, Australia. Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel Flowers (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park in Katoomba.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A Bee lands on a Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park in Katoomba. Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park in Katoomba.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A Bee lands on a Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A Bee lands on a Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Pink Flannel flowers (Actinotus forsythii) bloom at Gooch's Crater near the Gardens of Stone National Park in Lithgow.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A Bee lands on a Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park.Credit:Brook Mitchell
