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OZIDwalks = Australian plant Identification walks. Would you like to go on beautiful walks, learning

28/04/2022

Anyone I’d this fruit ? Lovely lichen mushroom filled day with great people

16/04/2022

Beautiful treasures of the bush 💫

02/04/2022

🦖🐊 So prehistoric - Beautiful tree ferns running along this freshwater stream thats at the top of the waterfall at

30/03/2022

Banksia’s are beautiful fresh or dried, they remind me of little corns when maturing 🤔

20/03/2022

Scaevola calendulacea - Dune fan flower. Plays a important role in stabilising sand on the dunes. Found in NSW, QLD and VIC. It’s one of 71 species found in Australia. The purple mature fruits are a edible bush tucker.

17/03/2022

Looking up from the lush dark floor of the wetlands to the top of the towering trees reaching for sunlight.

16/03/2022

Beautiful native grasses

10/03/2022

The Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). builds an avenue-type bower and decorates it with carefully selected ornaments, preferring items which are blue or yellow. In bowers near human habitation, blue plastic straws and plastic bottle lids are often the most common decorations.

10/03/2022

We came across a lovely squirrel glider today while working in

08/03/2022

Everything looks very green!

08/03/2022

Araucaria bidwillii, commonly known as the bunya pine. The bunya pine is considered a sacred tree by many Aboriginal people – some consider it to be their 'Mother Spirit' or totem. The nuts are a yummy food.

04/03/2022

Lovely spiders with sparkling webs in this rain are hard to miss when working outside 😁

25/02/2022

Caves in av with jaz

25/02/2022

24/02/2022

The Wattle ~ Acacia, with about 1000 of this genus growing in Australia.

23/02/2022

Banksia’s what a beautiful species. Banksia integrifolia. Large and sculpture like once established. Providing the foundations to environments in community’s such as our dunes on the northern beaches. Estimated to be 65 to 59 million years old. Banksia have been said to resemble rebirth and new beginnings.

05/02/2022

Working in beautiful locations

20/01/2022

13/01/2022

Black house spider

03/01/2022

To explore 💚

31/12/2021

No idea what this one is... love finding cool species 🦎

31/12/2021

Blue mountain orchids

23/12/2021

We have in pic 1 :Net casting spider pic looks like an octopus 2: Clematis aristata 3: Ceratopetalum apetalum 4: Tristaniopsis laurina

23/12/2021

We have your pic 1 :Net casting spider pic looks like a octopus 2: Clematis aristata 3: Ceratopetalum apetalum 4: Tristaniopsis laurina

22/12/2021

Ground covers are super important !
This one is called Plectranthus parviflorus found growing in states of NSW, QLD and VIC. Commonly seen growing with other ground covers such as Oplismenus aemulus, Commelina diffusa. I found this plant does produce a nice smell when crushed. Super cute beautiful flowers.

17/12/2021

Litoria falax

15/12/2021

Storm rolling in

12/12/2021

It’s getting close to Christmas and the bush is giving gifts

19/11/2021

Clematis glycinoides ~seeding found in NSW, QLD and Vic

Headache Vine

8 species found in Australia

These beautiful species where found working around a endangered plant community of Syzygium paniculatums

12/11/2021

These beetles where insanely beautiful

05/11/2021

Adiantum formosum- black stem maiden hair fern, 1 of 8 maiden hairs in Australia. This lovely one makes it home in colonies found in rainforest, open forest, or on moist flats near streams.
NSW, QLD AND VIC

05/11/2021

Solanum laciniatum ! ......
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. ...........
The fruit raw or cooked, must be thoroughly ripe because unripe fruit is poisonous ☠️

05/11/2021

Glochidion ferdinandi – Cheese Tree 🧀 Seeds are eaten by birds and insects. Found growing along the coast of NSW. QLD, NT and WA

27/10/2021

Beautiful native Hymenosporum flavum, or native frangipani

17/10/2021

Beautiful Drosera binata ..? Please confirm species if know. Lovely Carnivorous plant found growing along the banks of the at

17/10/2021

Kunzea ambigua ~ Tick bush 🕸
Flowers from spring to summer !
Grows in NSW,VIC and TAZ. In its natural environment you will find it in free draining Eucalyptus bush lands. Interestingly is used medicinally found to offer anti-inflammatory effect on the skin. 🤔 There are around 40 identified species.
The leaves on the Kunzeas are often aromatic 🌼

15/10/2021

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. 🕸

10/10/2021

The beautiful flannel flowers are out ! Actinotus helianthi

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We came across a lovely squirrel glider today while working in #hornsby

Blue mountain orchids

Beautiful native Hymenosporum flavum, or native frangipani

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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 🧐

Wattles are special 💛💛

Westringia fruiticosa ! Coastal rosemary 🌼 fantastic plant. So beautiful when in flower in contrast to its blue silver foliage. Found growing along the coast, wind pruned by the high winds. Takes ally to kill one of these. Found on rocky sandstone headlands in NSW. Hardy plant great to use for hedges or in a grass garden ! 💚

Think we got ourselves a natural hybrid of Grevillea sericea and Grevillea speciosa ..🧐 G.speciosa flowers are red and the leaves are wider. G.sericea flowers are pink and linear leafs. We have a combo of both ! It has been documented this can happen. A great plant found in NSW in the dry bush sandstone soils. Like all Grevilleas honey eaters and insects love to feed of the nectar from these flowers. The seeds are also eaten by birds. The seeds ripen on plants a few at a time so propagation is often done by cuttings. Feel free to ask your local nursery these questions as they should be able to tell you how the plants have grown.

Yum yum yum... Hibbertia scandens- snake vine. Fantastic coastal plant. Grows front line on the dunes and further back in the bush quite happily. Grows in NSW and QLD. Easily to manipulate the vine to grow where you want. Old growth becomes woody and awesome habitat for little birds, attracts so many native bees and insects, beetles and caterpillars 🐛 Phalaenoides glycinae is the caterpillar in this photo.

Lasiopetalum ferrugineum is one of 35 of this genus in Oz. This beautiful shrubs young stems is a #rusty colour and flowers that hang below the leaves. Grows in south Qld, #NSW and Vic. Found all through the coastal scrub and bush land. Fairly hardy species. Great colour contrast it provides.

Baloskion tetraphyllum Love this plant. It’s fantastic for home gardens and obviously looks awesome in its natural habitat. Found growing in NSW ,Qld, Vic, Tas, and SA. Loved to grow with a wet foot. Found around the edges of rivers, lakes and damp environments. Can deal with occasional flooding of the roots. Reminds me of a plant you would see in a Dr.Seuss film. Can grow up to 1.5 m.

Australian birds - I hear 3. Can you identify which birds are singing here ? One of them is very noisy. Starts with C, K and C. 🦜🪶

Sporobolus virginicus - Sand Couch. Ground cover with runners. Found all over Australia’s coast line. Front line to beach growing on the sandy free draining salty dunes and salt marshes. Goes through different colours when cooler months. In established groups growing in the ground can look a blue green, yellow green. Fantastic grass for holding in the ground. Provides habitats and food for lizards, birds and insects.

Come along for a walk through a beautiful she oak Forrest! When the wind picks up through these trees. The sounds is beautiful.

Bugs on the coastal Acacia sophorae which is just about to flower. We can see the buds growing all over here. !

Quick biology lesson. Mushroom are closer related to animals than plants ! Animals like us will starve if we don’t eat. Plants create there own food in the right environment (sunlight, water, carbon). Mushrooms can’t do what plants do, so they rely on a relationship from another source to absorb its nutrients (feed of). Giving back vital vitamins to its environment and creates connection net works under the soil. (Like avatar the movie) Mushrooms fruiting body is the mushroom we eat and see on the surface. The mushroom itself is a network under the ground. Called mycelium. I have not quite learnt my mushroom species yet. So if you know this one please comment.

Some of the creatures you may be lucky enough to meet on a OZID walk is your blue tongue #lizard 🦎

Hey I’m Sasha 👋 I run and operate OZID walks. Taking groups and individuals on a journey through this amazing ancient landscape. On an OZID walk you’ll learn the ID of the natives we have in OZ and have a visual, physical, sensual experience. I have a passion for Australian Natives after working in this industry, studying and living on this amazing continent. Message or contact through link in the bio if you would like to join this experience.