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The bush in the centre of the photo. I thought some kind of grevillea?

Location flinders Mornington peninsula

Thanks 🙏

[southern goldfields side of GDR, Central Highlands Vic]

It is just into the second week of June, and what is an early August flowering plant in my garden at our elevation, is flowering now.

*Hardenbergia violacae* (false sarsaparilla, happy wanderer), garden grown from nursery source, though plant is also indigenous to area, though never as vigorous.

Now as it turns colder still, maybe it will be a plant in stasis, or we are in for a weird winter, and flowers coming really early.

A plant that looks like a pine from a distance but is not. This branch and seed pods was taken near Ouyen in NW Victoria.

Hey all!

I moved into a property recently with this plant growing super tall. I decided to cut some of the over growing branches yesterday. Today I learned that it's a castor oil plant (I think) and I've read all sorts of scary things about it.

I have awful anxiety and now I'm freaking out about ricin poisoning.... I cut quite a lot of it down but was wearing gloves, a mask and eyewear whilst doing so. Probably should have Google lensed it first but I didn't think at the time.

Any advice is appreciated. From what I read it's only deadly if it's ingested so hoping all is fine.

Thank you in advance

This is growing in this sort of "no man's land" which is a triangle of land between 3 adjoining lands. It's at the back right our fence and hard to get to. Even though it has flowers it gives off a bad vibe. North Queensland.

Stumbled upon this yesterday in the bush in north-western Sydney (Glenorie, NSW) and took a photo since it had a more pink colour than what I'm used to seeing (that being Lambertia formosa). Did check it on iNat but it simply suggested L. formosa.

The flower also doesn't appear to have the same structure either. It's highly unlikely to have been deliberately planted there.

Any suggestions on what this could be?

Just natural variation of L. formosa?

I might try to find the plant again and see if any additional flowers have the same characteristics, or if there's any fruit to further check ID.

Hi, can someone please ID this plant , there are lots of them , they grow quite fast and seem to have little yellow fruits , although most don't. Booral , Hervey Bay QLD , about 500m from the ocean

Location is Shoalhaven NSW.

Trying to get an ID primarily on the tall papery bark tree. After checking the local councils native trees list and image comparing all the Paperbark trees in there I couldn't get a match I was confident in. Big fan of the canopy these make when they make so if like to get a few more planted and encouraged to have tall bare trunks to look at in a decade or two.

While I was out trying to get a picture found the shorter tree with nuts?acorns? On stem and a huge ground mat of this herby looking thing. IDs on either of those for curiosity.

I have this small shrub that the native and European bees love but it is infiltrating my lawn.

In the garden I have some natives already and would like to substitute the shrubs for something similar for the bees that isn’t going to get literally everywhere. Even grows in cracks of cement 😳

Can anyone recommend something please and thank you?

Gracemere, central Queensland.

Hello. I have had this plant for roughly 2 1/2 years. It definitely grows very very slowly. I tend to keep it basic, watering just enough and giving it some more sun now it is getting into winter.
The leaves are always so dry and brittle, and are now beginning to spot. Is it possible the roots are rotting? What can I do to make
It healthier and start to fruit and flower?

Growing them 120km NE of Dubbo, NSW- planted about 2019

Has a white fig-like pulp inside, sweet smelling

Thanks in advance 😁

[Southern Central Highlands, Vic.]

20 year old banksia that is just over knee high, 3 m spread. This morning it had an eastern spinebill and a New Holland honeyeater feeding from it, and superb fairy wrens sitting on it. One of my winter food plants for the bird nectivores.

One of Molyneaux's cultivars.