Botany Nerds Ahoy
GuySmiley wrote:Cheers @AW, agree with all of that. Hey, loving all the posts on your adventures, cheers
GuySmiley. Anytime pal.
I’ve got plenty more to upload, you know me well by now, I can talk underwater with a mouth full of peanuts. AW
seeds wrote:Any new culms that pop up that aren’t wanted can be cut at ground level. They’re that supple when they first appear you can snap them off by hand.
Seeds. Hi mate. 100%. Supple young culms ‘bamboo shoots’ are a culinary delight in some Asian food.
Don’t you love the word culm. AW
Bloody hell @ AW, check this out
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/big-stick-insect-acr...
GuySmiley wrote:Bloody hell @ AW, check this out
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/big-stick-insect-acr...
GuySmiley. Hi mate. Hope you’re doing fine.
Thank you, incredibly interesting, the Atherton Tablelands are a great place for biodiversity, especially in the remaining wet forests.
Contrary to most people’s thoughts on rainforest age in the area, the Daintree is not the oldest rainforest in the world. It’s actually an area on the lower side of Mt. Bartle Frere, Qlds highest mountain .
This rainforest is approximately 180 million years old, an interesting comparison is the Amazon is around 55 million years old. Biodiversity, I love it. AW
A local, but found throughout SE Asia.
Orthomorpha coarctata Long Flange Millipede.
Yes, amazing stuff @AW, just picking up on @olddog's comment on the other thread was plant shopping today and brought home two of my all time favourites perfumed flowering plants. Luculia Gratissima and Philadelphus Virginalis, Cheers, GS
GuySmiley wrote:Yes, amazing stuff @AW, just picking up on @olddog's comment on the other thread was plant shopping today and brought home two of my all time favourites perfumed flowering plants. Luculia Gratissima and Philadelphus Virginalis, Cheers, GS
GuySmiley. Hi pal. Good to chat as always.
Those two purchases will definitely provide an arousing aroma.
Luculia sp. love the cold and cool of Southern states in Oz that’s for sure. Spring flowers that smell exquisite. Plants from mid to high altitudes or high latitudes globally where a certain level of cold is required.
Philadelphus mexicanus was always a favourite of mine when landscaping clients gardens when they wanted exotics only, a great perfume that’s for sure, long lived plant that can be shaped, pruned or clipped into a hedge. Lovely yellow centre of stamens in a cupped egg white flower.
I have full respect for your admiration of plants, we could talk all day everyday about flora. All the best, I’m off with owner of where we are staying to a guy who grows tropical plants in the village here where we are staying, I’m producing a landscape plan for their half built new house, a nice challenge which is a first for me using totally tropical flora. AW
Next in your bi-monthly Tassie flora quiz; Common and Botanical names for...
In the deep, dark wilds of tassie
a wee seed makes a sassy start
A hundred years, it grows into
a shelt'ring tower, protective hand
When old and worn at life's sunset
admired much for its blackened heart
A coupla blokes come chop it down
to make a wicked as hall stand
Haha, wonderful basesix, thank you, and spot on ;-)
lovely illustration, @Sprout, I'll not google the scientific name, @AW'll do that in his noggin! Must be epic to be able to do that : )
Sprout wrote:Next in your bi-monthly Tassie flora quiz; Common and Botanical names for...
Sprout. Hi.
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius Celery Top Pine Podocarpaceae Family. AW
Hey mate, not Celery Top Pine (you got that one last time), though I can see the resemblance. :-)
Sprout wrote:Hey mate, not Celery Top Pine (you got that one last time), though I can see the resemblance. :-)
Wasn’t comfortable with my answer, it’s possibly Lomatia tasmanica. AW
And here I was thinking it was mistletoe .
Basesix had it, Antherosperma moschatum, Blackheart Sassafras. Which I only recently learned:
"Blackheart Sassafras is a type of timber known for its distinctive dark streaks that run through the heartwood of the Sassafras tree. This unique coloring is caused by staining fungi that infect the wood after a trauma to the tree, such as storm damage. While the fungi can be seen as a flaw, it's actually what makes Blackheart Sassafras so desirable and recognizable."
It's lovely timber. Great work B6, nice Pome. And Seeds was onto it in tunes.
I planted this Syzygium nervosum in my in-laws' garden in Vietnam last December and it seems to be doing pretty well, pictures show December 2024 and August 2025. In 2007 I was living in Hanoi and playing football twice a week with a neighbourhood team and we always drank iced vối tea during breaks, very refreshing. Now almost 20 years later I get where it came from.
Hey lucky-al
That’s interesting. Was the tea from the leaves or the fruit? Just straight like green tea for example?
Seems a keen interest for some, so why not.