Welcome to the new year and FoMM’s first working party in 2019. We will continue removing horehound at the old sheep camp and mulching previously weeded sites. View various stages of the stock camp improvement at the bottom of this blog. When: Sunday, 20 January, from 9am to about 12noon;…
FoMM have lodged a submission to the ACT Government’s ACT Offsets Policy and Delivery Framework – Position Paper
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).…
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…
The greenhood orchid Hooked Rustyhood,Oligochaetochilus hamatus syn. Pterostylis hamata was found on Mount Majura in recent days. This is the second orchid species of the genus discovered in the nature reserve (list of Mt Majura / Mt Ainslie plant species). The species is not common in the ACT. It occurs…
Bundy (Eucalyptus goniocalyx) buds and flowers BOTANICAL NAME Eucalyptus goniocalyx COMMON NAME Bundy, Long-leaved Box FAMILY Myrtaceae (Myrtle family) SPECIES NAMING Angled calyx (calyx: collective name of sepals, which form the outer whorl of flowers) GROWTH HABIT Small, low branching tree to 15 m tall, with…
