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Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)Observer
ruitaoDescription
hard leaf, dark color on back side.
Low level, opposite leaf arrangement. Compound leaf.
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Virginia Pepperweed (Lepidium virginicum)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Low level shrubs, dry stone like "fruit".
Near driveway, leaves at bottom side of stem.
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Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Near driveway, weed like.
Dry sandy soil, low level shrub.
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Climbing Guinea Flower (Hibbertia scandens)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Yellow flower, 5 petals, lots of stamens.
Low level plant. Moist soil, near ocean.
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Large-leaf Bush Pea (Pultenaea daphnoides)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Grow Environment:
"Woody" feel flower, one layer of black and one layer of yellow inside.
Alternate leaf growing backward. Oil and hard.
Grow inside rocks. Spread out form a net.
Collected at 5pm in royal national park, 21 degree, sunny.
Identification:
Family: Fabaceae
Shrub, climbing plant.
Leaves alternate, compound (pinnate), stipules present.
Inflorescences paniculate, cymose. Flowers actinomorphic.
5 free sepals. 5 petals, free and equal. Stamens commonly 10 or sometimes <10, also free. Carpel solitary.
Ovary superior, attached to the upper suture; style and stigma terminal.
Gene: Pultenaea
Shrub plant. Leaves alternate, margins entire, stipules scarious. Most of their length behind the petiole.
Flowers orange-yellow, axillary but crowded in apparently terminal heads. Bracteoles attached to the calyx tube.
Standard longer than the lower petals. Stamens free. Ovary pubescent to glabrous, 2 ovules, style filiform.
Species: Pultenaea daphnoides
Erect shrub; stems appressed pubescent.
Leaves alternate, cuneate to obovate, 15 mm long, 5 mm wide, apex rounded to truncate, aristate, margins flat to slightly recurved, upper surface darker than lower; stipules 1 mm long.
Inflorescences terminal, dense, bracts imbricate, 4 mm long, entire at apex, ovate, hairy.
Flowers around 10 mm long, bracteoles 3 mm long, lacking stipules, narrow-oblong to narrow-ovate, subulate to acuminate, predominantly pubescent, attached to the upper part of the calyx tube.
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River Rose (Bauera rubioides)Observer
ruitaoDescription
8 sepals, 8 petals, yellow stamens.
Grow our of rocks.
Low and high level.
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Slender Rice Flower (Pimelea linifolia)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Opposite leaf arrange. Needle leaf.
Lots of stamens going out from same point.
hard soil.
grow from rocks
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Fuchsia Heath (Epacris longiflora)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Grow Environment:
4 sepals green, 5 fused petals bottom red top white and 5 stamens (black points).
Liquid inside the flower. Grow inside rocks and on the ground. Both high and low place.
Bell shape flower with fused petals, hairy steam going downward, whorled leaf arrangement.
Collected at 3.15pm in royal national park, 23 degree, cloudy with little bit rain.
Identification:
Family: Ericaceae
Deciduous shrubs, terminal bud aborting.
Leaves spiral, leaves arrange whorled. Entire leaf, estipulate.
Inflorescences axillary (flowers single), racemose; flowers conspicuous, polymetrically (bi-symmetrical).
4 sepals fused at the very base; 5 petals fused (fused as a cap), 5 stamens free from the corolla (adnate).
Style usually about as long as corolla, hollow (expanded at the apex), stigma punctate to lobed.
Gene: Epacris
Rigid shrubs; branchlets usually pubescent; branches with leaf scars differing in prominence and shape.
Imbricate leaves, con-colours, petiolate.
Axillary extending along the branches to form leafy inflorescences; bracts numerous, imbricate, grading in size to sepals.
Sepals 5, glabrous except for ciliolate margins. Corolla tube campanulate, much longer than sepals, glabrous.
Stamens 5, filaments short, inserted in the throat. Anthers half-exserted. Nectary of 5 separate scales. Style inserted in a deep depression in the ovary, long and exserted.
Species: Epacris longiflora
Spreading shrub, 50-200 cm high. Stems with prominent short broad leaf scars; branchlets villous.
Ovate leaves, 6 mm long, 4 mm wide, apex acuminate, base cordate, margins minutely toothed. Lamina thin and flat.
Flowers extending down branches, initially erect, later pendent, 5 mm diam, red-tubed with white lobes. Peduncle to 2 mm long, bracts usually long-acuminate. Sepals 4.5 mm long. Corolla tube 20 mm long; lobes erect to spreading, 3.5 mm long. Anthers hidden in tube.
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Flax-Lilies (Genus Dianella)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Grass like.
purple flower, 5 petals 5 stamens, small flower.
spike fruit.
new stem wasp old stem.
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Corkwood (Duboisia myoporoides)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Dry soil.
5 petals 4 stamens. hard leaf.
low level plant.
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Sago Flower (Ozothamnus diosmifolius)Observer
ruitaoDescription
Grow Environment:
Compound umbel inflorescence, needle shape linear leaf.
Soil medium moist, small plant at low level about 2-4 meters.
Near road, have failing leaves, insects and rocks under.
Collected at 2pm in royal national park, 23 degree, cloudy.
Identification:
Family: Asteraceae
Low-level shrubs. Leaves alternate, leathery with no stipules.
Several heads in a compound inflorescence, florets sessile on a receptacle.
Ray florets corolla.
Every single head flower is tubular. Receptacle has elongated club-shaped structure.
Ovule solitary
Gene: Ozothamnus
Shrub plant.
Leaves alternate, stem-clasping; entire leaf and sessile.
Heads in umbellate corymbs, terminal growth, heads globose.
White corolla, style branches truncate, the apical barbels clavate and opaque white.
Species: Ozothamnus diosmifolius
Much-branched, erect shrub to 5 m high, usually 2 meters high, branches with a short rough tomemtum.
Leaves linear, 10-15 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, apex reflexed, margins tightly revolute.
Heads numerous in dense terminal corymbs; heads globose, 2-3 mm long, 2-3 mm diam.
Head opaque white. Pappus bristles are clavate at the apex.
