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Plants of the Spotted Gum Ironbark Forests
Learn the types of trees, shrubs, grasses and vines that populate the Ironbark Forests of the Lower Hunter.
Plants of the Box Gum Grassy Woodlands
This vegetation community is listed as an Ecologically Endangered Community because of the flora and fauna this community supports, including the species of White Box, Yellow Box, and Blakely’s Gum.
Eucalypt Bark Types
Just as their fruits (gumnuts) can help us figure out which Eucalypt is which so can their bark, these are some commonly seen in the Upper Hunter.
Gumnuts of the Upper Hunter
Bark types and gumnuts (or “fruit”) are a handy way of determining which group a Eucalypt belongs to.
Learn About Galls
Stacy Mail talks through identifying galls.
With less than 300 birds left in the wild, the Regent Honeyeater is a bird in dire need of help.
These stunning ...
The next group of Eucalypt like trees we’re looking at are the bloodwoods. The bloodwoods derive their common name ...
Within the Eucalypts and close relatives the common names of many of the groups do make a bit of sense, Ironbarks, ...
Take me to the river...
"The contest is over, the dust has settled and one magnificent tree stands above the ...
Plant of the Month: “I don’t mind at all if you call me a Mallee Boy.”
The famous song by John Williamson refers ...
A dandy old horsernan is Brigalow Mick-Which his name, sir, is Michael O'Dowd -Whatever he's riding, when timber ...
Common in heathlands and sandstone areas the Bearded Heaths (Leucopogon spp) look fairly unremarkable till coming ...
These terms confuse a lot of people, so let’s just take a minute to clear things up.
‘Native’ is a general term ...
https://maygibbs.org/characters/big-bad-banksia-men/
Australian author May Gibbs cast the “Big Bad Banksia Men” ...
Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters (source: Wikipedia)
They started at once, and ...
Do you have a native vine gone mad with the La Niña conditions we are experiencing?
Native vines are an ...
Life would be so much easier…..
Y’know, life would be so much easier if plants could read books, they’d know ...