Your Plant and Wildflowers Images
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Member - Stephen L (Clare SA)
Hi All
Just a reminder for you all to go through your images, do a post or even better still a Blog on the different ones that you have seen on your travels, or even where you live.
I have just finished putting together the ones that I was able to capture back in August while heading up and out into the Simpson (
Birdsville Track and Simpson Desert Wildflowers)
There have already been some great images from over in Western Australia, but what about the rest of our great nation? I am heading out again over this weekend to take more images of what can be found around a very special part of the
Clare Valley - Spring Gully Concervation Park. I started last week and have taken over 20 images and hope to get a lot more. Most of the images are all native to this area, but there will also be a few "Weeds" or introduced species that are now becoming
pests.
So come on all members, go through your holiday shots, or even better still, stick a new set of batteries in your camera and drive around the area that you live and show the rest of the world what great
Wildflowers we have here in Australia.
Happy Wildflower Hunting.
Cheers
Stephen
Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:03
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:03
So what is it ;)
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Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:13
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:13
Looks like a
young Bloodwood tree, Kev, There were heaps in flower on the Sandover too, late in August,
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:21
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:21
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Follow Up By: MEMBER - Darian, SA - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 10:32
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 10:32
Must be a desert bloodwood - saw mobs of them all over outback Qld this winter - pics below from
Lawn Hill - resin/sap often seen oozing from presumably wounded bark - when it dries up on the ground, it crumbles to hard crystals.Image Could Not Be Found
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Yes - I must get round to sorting the latest trip's pics.......................
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:34
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:34
Good photos, Darian. Your specimen appears to be a little darker in the bark, than the ones above.
When I worked in the Kimberly, many years ago, the darker barked trees were classed as "sand bloodwoods" (with heaps of blood too), and the lighter coloured bark ones were "Ridge bloodwood", as they usually grew on higher, or ridgey country. The latter made better fence, or yard posts, than the sand bloodwood.
These darker trees were also prevalent in Blue Mountains, and of course grew into quite large trees.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:07
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:07
Hi Kev
Like the others have stated, it is the Corymbia terminalis - Western bloodwood
Here are some that I photographed out in the Simpson on the Eyre Creek detour track.
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Follow Up By: Member - John and Val - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 15:46
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 15:46
Desert Bloodwood. I see that some botanists are still calling it a Eucalyptus - thankfully. Image Could Not Be Found
There are a very large number of bloodwoods across northern Oz but this one is spread very widely.
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Val.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 15:53
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 15:53
Hi Val
That is what I thought, but Rhondda called it a Corymbia in page 28 of the book. Me not being an expert called it by the name that she called it.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 15:58
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 15:58
Hi Val
Just another silly question, but what is the correct name, as I just Googled Corymbia and this is what they say..
Bloodwood
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Follow Up By: Member - John and Val - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 16:10
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 16:10
Hi Stephen,
Have a look in the notes section of your link, and you will see some discussion about naming. Really its an example of where "the science is not settled" an the experts don't yet agree. Best to accept that both are correct in that they are referring to the same tree. The differences are so small, maybe even down to DNA level in some instances that for us non experts it really doesn't matter.
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 at 21:39
Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 at 21:39
More on the Emu Apple.
After shifting through a few prints, taken over the past 30 odd years, managed to come up with this example, early in the search.
This tree was just off the Diamantina River Road, but has since succumbed, no doubt due to the drought of 2008. Would suggest it may have witnessed the passing of the Durack Family, on their trek down the River, en route to the
Kimberley. Probably not as rounded in the canopy as I suggested to Mick, but a great specimen just the same.
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Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:15
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:15
Taken at The Living Desert in
Broken Hill, The plants were suffering from the dry
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:13
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:13
Hi Kev
You would have at least thought that Dave B would have given them a good watering before the Gathering to make them look their best....LOL
Thanks
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Reply By: Mick O - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 11:46
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 11:46
Timely Stephen,
I was hoping someone could identify this tree for me. It reminds me of one of the corkwood family but I'm not sure. I took these photos near Mooda Lake at the northern
intersection of the
Birdsville Developmental Road and the Cordillo Road. While these examples were fairly shrub like, in the background of one of the photos are examples that show they can reach quite a height.
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:26
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:26
They are Emu Apples, Mick.
They like sandy country, such as edge of sand hills etc. My job every Christmas Eve to take the daughters down to cut an Emu Apple as a Christmas Tree.
An old speciman is a particularly attractive tree, with rounded dense canopy. Would make a good tree to
camp under, in warmer weather.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:01
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:01
Hi Mick
Bob has just beaten me to it. They are Owenia acidula or the common name as they are known as the Emu Apple. They were also out on near the Waddi Trees just out of
Birdsville. Here as some images of a bigger tree.
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To help me identify the flora, I where possible buy books from the local area. A good travelling companion for the Channel Country is the book by Rhondda Alexander and produced by the Channel Landcare group titled....
"A field Guide to the Plants of the Channel Country Western Queensland"
I purchased my from the
Birdsville Visitor Centre, yet could have purchased it from the Landcare Group for half the price if I had only know about it before hand.
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Follow Up By: Member - John and Val - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:16
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:16
Hi Mick,
Yes , Owenia acidula. Have a look
here
Which reminds me that I need to
check that I have linked your post on the desert walnut.
Cheers,
Val
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Reply By: Member - gujimbo - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:13
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:13
Greetings All
More wildflowers/birdlife from our recent desert trip,
Aug 2011 Simpson Trip
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:15
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 14:15
Hi gujimbo
Great images and now you will have to do a Blog and add some of them so we can read of your great trip.
Cheers
Stephen
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Reply By: Alpaca - Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 20:49
Saturday, Oct 01, 2011 at 20:49
G'day Stephen, We saw these on the top end of the
Hay River a couple of months ago. There were white ones and pink ones but of the same species I think.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:08
Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:08
Hi Al
Sorry but the pictures did not turn out. Was your daughter ever able to get holf of the Field Guide to the Plants of Outback SA. I have tried every possible avenue and they are just not available.
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Follow Up By: Dasherdes - Monday, Oct 03, 2011 at 21:58
Monday, Oct 03, 2011 at 21:58
Try again under my
membership LOL.
I did get a copy of the book a while ago but I thought that you had said you had already obtained a copy so Blaze ended up with it. I think she is back to
Gluepot in a week or two and she may be able to get another copy.
Hopefully here is the photo again.
Also another of mt favourite photo's
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Monday, Oct 03, 2011 at 22:08
Monday, Oct 03, 2011 at 22:08
Hi Al
Still no images. As for the book, the only one that I was able to get was the Mallee in Flower.
Hope you had a great
Hay River Trip.
Cheers
Stephen
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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Tuesday, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:57
Tuesday, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:57
Stephen,
Should have posted this earlier re Rhondda's "Plants of the Channel Country".
We still have copies, and you can ring on 07 46571 881 to order copies. Still $20 each. All proceeds go to Channel Landcare Group.
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Reply By: Bob Y. - Qld - Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 at 22:00
Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 at 22:00
Stephen,
Also found these along the Sandover, east of the Ammaroo turn off. Plenty of photo oppurtunities when we came through there in late August, but time was against us........as always, it seems.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Monday, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:13
Monday, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:13
Hi Bob
That is a great picture. Do not worry, you are not the only one that time always seems to be against us when travelling. If you went on a trip and stopped for every plant that we saw, it would take year to travel to where we intend to get to.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Stephen
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