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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.
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 ...
Here’s an interesting one for you (well, they’re all interesting to me at least), I was out in the field a few ...
Last month we were in the mud looking at mangroves, this month we’ll go slightly closer shoreward and take a look ...
A new state-wide campaign is urging residents to be on the lookout for the prohibited sale or trade of prickly ...
Do you have Lantana camara in your backyard or on your property? Our scientists are documenting patterns in ...
There’s a concept in evolutionary biology called convergent evolution, it’s where distantly related organisms ...
Another couple of plants which commonly get mistaken for weeds (and pulled out) is Flannel Leaf (Astrotricha ...