Flora and Fauna of Bunyip
  • Birds
  • Plants
    • Lilies
    • Orchids
    • Trees & Shrubs
    • Grasses & Rushes
    • Other plants
    • Weeds
  • Fungi
  • Insects & spiders
  • Other animals

Trees and shrubs

I don't know the names of many of the trees, but I've worked out
​a number of the shrubby bushy type plants (I think!)
Kangaroo apple (Solanum aviculare) 1/11/17
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​Polyscias sambucifolia (Elderberry Panax)
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Casuarina

5/3/17 She Oak (Casuarina) - the only one I've seen.  Not looking that healthy either!
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Grevillea

Spider Grevillea 2/11/15
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Silky Oak - Grevillea Robusta 7/11/15
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Dusty Miller (Spyridiu parvifolium)?
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Cherry Ballart (Exocarpos cupressiformis) 10/10/1
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Snowy Daisy-bush (Olearia lirata)? 3/10/15​
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Prickly Tea-tree (Leptospermum continentale) 10/10/15 
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Burgan (Kunzea ericoides) 26/11/16.  12/17 - the whole of the easement is covered in flowers - I wonder whether they only flower every 3-4 years as this is the first time we have seen all the tea trees flower at once!  It looks like snow :)
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Melaleuca

Scented paperbark? (Melaleuca squarrosa) 10/10/15
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Silver Banksia (Banksia marginata). 10/10/15
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Gullly grevillea? 6/10/15
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Bottlebrush
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And another bottlebrush - different shaped leaves 29/03/17
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​When mum came to visit the other day we noticed this bush that looked like a big rosemary bush - but with what we thought looked like little cauliflowers at the end of each branch.  ​Turns out that it is Shiny Cassinia (Cassinia longifolia) - otherwise known as Cauliflower Bush!
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Lacebark  - Brachychiton discolor.  Not native to Gippsland - usually up in NSW/QLD.  King parrots love it!   14/2/16
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6/10/15 Broad-leaved bitter pea (Daviesia latifolia).
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Eucalyptus

Gum that started flowering in January.  Probably a ficifolia. 3/2/2016
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A gum with really silver new leaves and cream flowers.  14/2/16
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Eucalyptus cephalocarpa - Mealy Stringybark?
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  3/10/15 & 4/10/16 Found this at the top of the easement - maybe ​ Swamp paper-bark (Melaleuca ericifolia)?
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Wattles

Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata) - this is the first one to flower at our place - in July.  There is only one tree that I've seen at our whole place and it is near the house, making me think it has been planted and isn't local?
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Up next is Sallow Wattle - it flowers late July/August and there is a lot of it around.
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Prickly Moses (Acacia verticillata) starts flowering in August, although this photo was taken on 10/10/15
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This one is Blackwood Wattle (Acacia melanoxylon) which is supposed be a great fire retardant.  It starts flowering in August.
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Wattle
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Spreading wattle? (Acacia genistifolia) 
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Cinnamon Wattle?
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We sometimes see foam coming out of trees - this was a wattle tree that had lost a branch.  Apparently this happens when it rains a lot.  The tree exudes compounds called saponins - natural wetting agents that enable water to penetrate the soil?

​Um......  Something is blocking the driveway!   15/3/16
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  • Birds
  • Plants
    • Lilies
    • Orchids
    • Trees & Shrubs
    • Grasses & Rushes
    • Other plants
    • Weeds
  • Fungi
  • Insects & spiders
  • Other animals