Ancient Irises Ancient Soils
Another intro with more drone footage and music sure to piss off the stiffs zoomers, but it s imperative to film the habitat and landscape here you prcks. Ancient Irises, Ancient Soils. . Isophysis tasmanica is the sole species in the genus Isophysis, and the sole species in the subfamily Isophysidoideae an earlydiverging lineage in the Iris Family, Iridaceae. It grows on acidic, nutrientpoor, waterlogged sands in the mountains of Western Tasmania along with Blandfordia punicea (a redflowered, birdpollinated monocot in its own family in orde Asparagales) and the extremely bizarre Dracophyllum milliganii, of the blueberry family, Ericaceae. The entire habitat here is dominated by the smallest Eucalyptus species in the world, Eucalyptus vernicosa and buttongrass, Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (Cyperaceae), which forms a peatlike mat with its many dead and living roots. The soils it grows in here are basically white sands weathered from billionyearold sandst
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