Flora & Fauna

FAUNA mentioned in the book

The main characters:
Wombat – Common Wombat – Vombatus ursinus
Platypus –Ornithorhychus anatinus
Brush-tail Possum – Trichosurus vulpecula
Ring-tail Possum – Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Echidna – Short beaked Echidna – Tachyglassidae aculeatus
Goanna – Lace Monitor – Varanus varius
Kookaburra -Laughing Kookaburra – Dacelo novaeguineae
Frilled Lizard – Chlamydosaurus Kingii
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo – Cacatua galerita
Blue tongue lizard -Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard – Tiliqua scincoides scincoides
Frogmouth – Tawny Frogmouth – Podargus strigoides

Other critters mentioned:
Red-blue Dragon flies – Blue Skimmer Dragon Fly – Orthetrum caledonicum
Cicada – Cyclochila australasiae
White moth – White Tussock moth – Lymantriidae
Bats – Blossom Bat – Syconycteris australis
Crimson rosella – Platycerus elegans
Honey Eaters – Spiney Cheeked Honey-Eater – Acanthagenys rufogularis
Fantail – Roufus Fantail – Rhipidura rufifrons
Golden whistler – Pachycephala pectoralis
Spinebills – Eastern Spinebills – Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
Whipbird – Eastern Whipbird – Psophodes olivaceus
Satin bower bird – Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

FLORA mentioned in the book:
Gum trees & Gumnuts
Ghost gums – Corymbia dallachiana
Orange passionflowers – Passiflora auratia
Pink boronias – Boronia imlayensis
Yellow wattle – Acacia longiflolia
Native raspberry – Rubus parvifolis
Bottle brush – Callistemon
Banksia – Banksia
Acacia tree – Sydney Golden Wattle
Flannel flowers – Actinotus helianthi
Waratahs – Red Waratahs – Telopea speciossissima
Native wild orchids – Sarcochilus hartmannii
Stinging tree – Dendrocnide excels
Calla lily – Zantedeschia