Find a list of the tree species of Mt Majura (with comments) at majura.org/species-lists Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus rossii) with compression lines (left); Blakely’s Red Gum (E. blakelyi) clusters of buds (photographs Waltraud Pix) The Eucalypts and Wattles Australian vegetation, with the exception of smaller patches of rainforest and chenopod shrublands,…
Mount Majura protects stands of Drooping She-oak (Allocasuarina verticillata) which are an important food source for the vulnerable Glossy-Black Cockatoo, a large area of critically endangered Yellow Box–Blakely’s Red Gum Grassy Woodland on the lower slopes and rare Snow Gum Grassy Woodland on the eastern slopes, regionally important breeding habitat…
Snow on Mount Majura Wednesday, 13 July 2016 Mt Majura summit trig (G. Mcveigh) and slope below Radar (A. Clausen).
The Canberra Nature Map project is a repository for park care groups, volunteers and members of the public to report sightings of rare and endangered plant species and the many treasures that Canberra’s nature parks are home to. Please visit www.CanberraNatureMap.org to participate.
Descriptions and photographs of species that occur on Mount Majura. Bundy, Eucalyptus goniocalyx Kurrajong, Brachychiton populneus
Click on FoMM Flickr to join current available Groups and to view Mount Majura’s treasures. How to share your photographs. You would need to have or to open a Flickr account, upload your photos to your photo-stream, join the appropriate FoMM “Group” and add the photograph from your photo-stream to…
View Mount Majura’s treasures and share your photographs. Are you a keen photographer, interested in wildlife and happy to share Mount Majura’s highlights with the wider public? Then join the Friends of Mount Majura Flickr Groups of orchids, wildflowers, trees, grasses, lizards and mammals (including the Friends of Mount Majura).…
Centenary Trail Maps showing the suggested walk and bike routes (Data of the routes: Feasibility Report January 2011, CBRE)) Mount Majura: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/5933366264_a56af037e5_b.jpg Mount Ainslie: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5933355654_b95a39079a_b.jpg FoMM/Mt Ainslie Weeders Working Group on the Centenary Trail Guiding principles for the proposed Centenary Trail (June 2011) pdf
If you know what to look for you will find hundreds of Common Onion Orchids (Microtis unifolia) currently flourishing on Mount Majura. This rather inconspicuous orchid grows in poorly drained sites and has been found growing in large colonies at seepage areas on the footslopes where degradation is limited. The…
The latest addition to the Mount Majura species list is the uncommon Lobelia gibbosa var. gibbosa. This is the only species of the genus Lobelia recorded in the ACT. The species was discovered end of November 2010 at two locations growing in open forest on rocky soil at the west…
