Science / South Australia

'Absolute cracker looking' flower explodes in 'super bloom' across outback

ABC News Olivia Mason

20 Sept 2026 07:32 AEST Summary

Climate change Gardening Horticulture Nursery and Flower Production

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Zanna Gale said the flowers were outstanding this year.

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Niral Score 7.7 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, political diction and 2 more and 4 at zero

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Sentiment +0.3 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 A story about politics, written without coded language Sourcing 80 unattributednamed sources Mood 51 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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ABC Newsas they published this story	7.7

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