Category: Natural environment

  • Pink Gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa) Woodland

    timeinourhands, 2025, Pink Gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa), https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/283567659

    Trees shrubs Sedges and rushes Grasses herbs Groundcover climbers Plant communities in Mount compass area There are a number of Pink Gum woodland communities in the Mount Compass area. They are often associated with good quality soils, making good farmland. Nangkita Pink gum woodland The woodland rises above the Nangkita wetland running along Nangkita road…

  • Using NatureMaps to identify plant communities

    dnicolle, 2023, Mount Compass Swamp Gum Eucalyptus paludicola, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/192133470

    One of the best uses of NatureMaps is to locate plant communities which pre-existed European settlement. This procedure explains how to set NatureMaps for this purpose, then to use the vegetation key or ID to identify the upper, middle, and lower storey of the plant community.

  • NatureMaps

    NatureMaps

    NatureMaps is an online mapping tool which contains a range of information about the State’s natural resources. It is available for the general public to use to learn and understand more about the physical environment. 

  • Silky tea-tree (Leptospermum lanigerum) shrubland

    davemmdave, 2024, Woolly Teatree (Leptospermum lanigerum), https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248436487

    The Silky tea-tree (Leptospermum lanigerum) shrubland is a significant habitat for unique wildlife in the Fleurieu region of South Australia.

  • Swamp gum (Eucalyptus ovata) woodland

    dnicolle, 2023, Swamp Gum (Eucalyptus ovata ssp. ovata) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195020362

    The Swamp gum (Eucalyptus ovata) woodland is dominated by the Eucalyptus ovata var. ovata with upper, middle and lower storey defined in this list: Swamp gum (Eucalyptus ovata) woodland short plant list. This PDF contains a list of plants which are available for the most part in native plant nurseries such as the those belonging…

  • Stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua) open forest

    moth_nut, 2023, Brown-top Stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua), https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169540951

    The Stringy bark Eucalyptus open forest is dominated by the Messmate Eucalypt

  • Yarra Ranges Council Plant Directory

    Yarra Ranges Council Plant Directory

    The Yarra Ranges Plant Directory is a database of the plants which can be found in the Shire territory, which includes the Yarra valley and Dandenong ranges.

  • Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

    Photo embedded from Gardening With Angus website, photo filename: anigozanthos-hybrid_kangaroo-paw_rampaging-roy-slaven-1, web page: https://gardeningwithangus.com.au/anigozanthos-rampaging-roy-slaven-kangaroo-paw/

    The ACRA website is a registration portal for plant breeders to apply for registration of a native plant cultivar.

  • Propagating native plants

    Propagating native plants

    This library guide lists a wide variety of media which covers the techniques used in propagation which are best used to propagate a given plant genus or species.

  • Pultenaea daphnoides

    spongeman, 2023, Large-leaf Bush Pea (Pultenaea daphnoides), https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/328863167

    Pultenaea daphnoides, commonly known as Large-leaf Bush Pea, has a distribution which includes the Fleurieu highlands (Mount Lofty) extending to Kangaroo Island, extending to southern Victoria and coastal Tasmania with distribution also along coastal New South Wales stretching into southern Queensland.