We came across a lovely squirrel glider today while working in #hornsby
Storm rolling in #northernbeaches
Solanum laciniatum !
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Kangaroo Apple 🍎
Great at soil stabilisation, grows in south-eastern Australia, in southern N.S.W, Vic, Tas, S.A., south-west W.A and N.Z.
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The fruit raw or cooked, must be thoroughly ripe because unripe fruit is poisonous ☠️
Beautiful native Hymenosporum flavum, or native frangipani
Sometimes when it’s raining or after it rains you may see foam running down trees ! This happens because the rain dissolves chemicals off the leaves and bark and the compounds the trees produce act as a natural soap 🧼
Chemicals are produced mostly by eucalyptus trees to defend themselves against microbes and herbivores. 🕸
Sometimes when it’s raining or after it rains you may see foam running down trees ! This happens because the rain dissolves chemicals off the leaves and bark and the compounds the trees produce act as a natural soap 🧼
Chemicals are produced mostly by eucalyptus trees to defend themselves against microbes and herbivores. 🕸
The beautiful flannel flowers are out ! Actinotus helianthi
Grevillea lanigera 'Mt Tamboritha' is a cultivar of the genus Grevillea. Unlike my normal post of straight species, it was just to pretty not to.
Strepera graculina Pied #currawong was spotted feeding of the blue berries from a lovely #Elaeocarpus reticulatus Blueberry 🫐 Ash. Found growing in #NSW, VIC and QLD. Many bird species will eat these fruits, the Bowerbird actually collect them for their blue colour 🧐