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World Environment Day Social Event, Sunday 8 June

20 May 2025

The Canberra Nature Map committee is organising a Social Event for World Environment Day, which is on 5 June 2025, but slightly delayed for convenience.It will be a picnic at Weston Park, Yarralumla, ...

Discussion

WendyEM wrote:

30 min ago

https://gfnc.org.au/images/information/PlantGroup/Mistletoe.pdf
see p.12

Amyema miquelii

jb2602 wrote:

33 min ago

Osprey consuming a fish

Pandion haliaetus

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

43 min ago

Best of a few candidates: _Ficus benjamina_ .
Compare with _Ficus obliqua_ in which the leaves basal secondary veins have more distinction than these photographs appear to show.
Compare to also a variety of possible introduced alien exotic _Ficus_ spp. in Au gardens and horticulture, originating overseas outside this continent .

Ficus sp.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

1 hr ago

Delonix regia?

Acer buergerianum

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

1 hr ago

This fine photograph added of the leaf under-side close-up assist identifying this tree, more again likely _Cryptocarya rigida_.

Flowers' insides' features' details, likely will provide evidence enough to confirm this identification.

This tree's flowers have just started opening in this first photograph here.

Yet the flowers have tiny total flower size and even tinier diagnostic fertile male – female features inside them.

Really challenging photography. No pressure expectations from me for clearly focussed fully open flowers' insides photography .
The timing has to be right for fully open flowers, as open as the flowers of each species in this Lauraceae botanical family respectively get
–partly more or less spreading petals . The anthers open (anthesis).

The photography timing has to happen soon after if picking flowers to photograph in a photography set up place elsewhere (soon do not mean to rush though –no need, not worth it).
As the flower's insides' tiny parts may shrivel uo, close up or shrink without sap flow, –especially if not kept in a moist bag after picking and out of sun and heat.

• Please make notes about them. Especially if you may study them a bit with a lens

• And/or please use these flowers when they open fully;
studying them with a lens;
in the Flora of NSW online PlantNet,
Lauraceae botanical plant family,
botanical key to genera
and then in each respective genus page,
there the botanical key to the species :

Starting here: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=fm&name=Lauraceae

I will assist with your queries about, tips, and traps to avoid, with using these botanical keys, to get to a suggested species identification.

• Or alternatively thirdly, if possible,
with a single at a time, fully open flower,

please clearly focus photograph 1 – a few examples –macro lens or magnifying lens required - as you have done here with the leaves' undersides' close-ups earlier today;

then here please share the resulting, most successfully focussed, photograph of the flower's tiny insides.
Again no pressure expectations, nor any need to go through frustrations trying.
Should have and stay fun, or it's not really necessary !

With flower details' information in notes or photographs, again i can assist you botanically key this out,
or if enough of your botanical key's diagnostic information,
i can botanically key this out for you.

Cryptocarya rigida