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Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sun 30 Sep, 2018 2:58 pm
by Neo
Loving the Hardenbergia around atm. Subtle dots of funky purple
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Thu 04 Oct, 2018 5:13 pm
by rcaffin
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Great North Walk, Berowra area
Cheers
Roger
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 06 Oct, 2018 11:09 pm
by crollsurf
A pretty little bush on a wind sweep outcrop near Lithgow, NSW
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Mon 15 Oct, 2018 3:50 pm
by rcaffin
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Calochilus paludosus, Red Beards.
Different from the 'Copper Beards' I posted recently (campestris).
Cheers
Roger
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Mon 15 Oct, 2018 3:53 pm
by rcaffin
Tues 25th - NOT Calochilus robertsonii but C campestris, Copper beards. My mistake. Sorry.
Cheers
Roger
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Wed 31 Oct, 2018 2:34 pm
by rowdy
Saw this on a recent walk, can anyone confirm if this is a native raspberry?
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Wed 31 Oct, 2018 2:35 pm
by rowdy
Photo of the leaves
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Fri 02 Nov, 2018 8:21 pm
by Hughmac
Hi Rowdy. You're correct, it is a native raspberry. Just be aware they do not taste anything like the cultivated variety.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 03 Nov, 2018 7:48 pm
by rcaffin
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Cymbidium suave, this morning.
Cheers
Roger
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 03 Nov, 2018 8:01 pm
by rowdy
Thanks Hughmac
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 03 Nov, 2018 8:19 pm
by Neo
Very suave Roger.
A bunch of flowers about at the moment in the Blueys. No camera, was shown a chocolate scented orchud this week.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 10 Nov, 2018 6:33 pm
by Neo
Car camped, looks like a Violet?
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 10 Nov, 2018 6:35 pm
by Neo
Another one next to a freah Hardenbergia. Using a spare phone so camera not as good.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Fri 16 Nov, 2018 4:48 pm
by awildland
Am loving exploring some new national parks south of my usual haunts. And it being spring, we have been blown away by the variety of wildflowers, their profuse flowering in some spots, and the thrill of finding new faces...here’s a few from near Mt Gingera in Namadgi NP, last week.
In addition to the pictures here we saw Calendia orchids, snow daisy, twin-flower beard heath, Alpine hovea, Goodenias, buttercups, stackhousia and three type of yellow pea including gorse bitter pea. Just beautiful walking.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Fri 16 Nov, 2018 9:05 pm
by Neo
Nice
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Mon 19 Nov, 2018 4:14 pm
by cajun
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Tue 27 Nov, 2018 6:43 pm
by michael_p
Intertwined Grass Tree on the edge of Dharawal NP.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Wed 28 Nov, 2018 12:00 am
by johnw
michael_p wrote:Intertwined Grass Tree on the edge of Dharawal NP.
Is that near the airfield Michael, maybe 10T west?
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Wed 28 Nov, 2018 8:18 am
by michael_p
Sure is. Just to the left of the 10T fire trail gate.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Wed 28 Nov, 2018 10:56 pm
by johnw
michael_p wrote:Sure is. Just to the left of the 10T fire trail gate.
Thanks, looked familiar. I did some exploring around there earlier in the year.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sun 09 Dec, 2018 7:57 am
by rowdy
Christmas bells, love this time of year.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Fri 21 Dec, 2018 12:11 pm
by michael_p
Hyacinth Orchids are out if force again this year around the Campbelltown area. This spot is east of Campbelltown North and is the biggest patch of this type of Orchid I have ever seen. Worth the effort to walk over and see if they are our out. They are pretty reliable but occasionally they wont flower. I managed to get out this morning and walk over for a look.
Every one of those spikes sticking up from the ground in the following picture is a flower stem. This was also replicated on the right hand side of the fire trail.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 22 Dec, 2018 1:33 pm
by johnw
michael_p wrote:Hyacinth Orchids are out if force again this year around the Campbelltown area. This spot is east of Campbelltown North and is the biggest patch of this type of Orchid I have ever seen. Worth the effort to walk over and see if they are our out. They are pretty reliable but occasionally they wont flower. I managed to get out this morning and walk over for a look.
Every one of those spikes sticking up from the ground in the following picture is a flower stem. This was also replicated on the right hand side of the fire trail.
Nice Michael, I've also seen them growing in Royal NP though not as abundant. I'm trying to get out for a short walk before Christmas Day if I can extract myself from the chores at home. Is that somewhere around Smiths Creek?
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sat 22 Dec, 2018 2:18 pm
by michael_p
Sure is Smiths Creek. I'll PM you some co-ords.
I have found these orchids along Peter Meadows Ck and the Georges River but I have never seen so many in one spot anywhere else.
Michael.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Mon 24 Dec, 2018 2:35 pm
by johnw
michael_p wrote:Sure is Smiths Creek. I'll PM you some co-ords.
I have found these orchids along Peter Meadows Ck and the Georges River but I have never seen so many in one spot anywhere else.
Michael.
Thanks for the co-ords Michael. I managed to see them yesterday on the way home from Bunnings.
Of course Muggins somehow went sailing past them initially, thinking they were beyond that junction.
Would be great to see that whole patch in bloom simultaneously.
I did find a few more just south of there near the creek, but literally only 2 or 3. Here is one of those:
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Sun 13 Jan, 2019 8:49 pm
by crollsurf
Also spotted a patch near Moruya, South coast NSW while on holiday just before new years.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Mon 14 Jan, 2019 10:29 am
by rcaffin
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Cryptostylus in old burnt area
Cheers
Roger
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Tue 29 Jan, 2019 8:41 am
by Huntsman247
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Tue 29 Jan, 2019 11:30 am
by Neo
Hi should be Crinum pedunculatum.
They have a nice white flower with whispy bits off the petals, similar to 'spider lillies' you may see planted in a garden.
Don't know if you can eat them!! They are easy to grow and a tough plant. When those seeds dry to an off white put one in a pot so its partially exposed. Or if left around dry they will eventually start to put out a shoot.
Good garden plant to 1m and someimes used on roadside plantings.
Re: Flora Seen on Your Last Walk?
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Tue 29 Jan, 2019 4:12 pm
by Huntsman247
Awesome! Thanks Neo. A bit of googling has revealed that the leaves can be used to relieve the pain from marine stings. But doesn't seem edible.