/r/australianplants

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A place to appreciate, and share information about, Australian Native plants.

This reddit is about Native Australian Plants and Trees. For exotic plants and trees please go to /r/GardeningAustralia

A place to appreciate and share information about Australian flora.


This reddit is about Native Australian Plants and Trees. For exotic plants and trees please go to /r/GardeningAustralia


Questions are welcome here. Not just welcome, encouraged. A lot of us enjoy answering questions, especially when it comes to identifying plants, whether in your garden or in the bush. Please include your location and any other information you have.

Indigenous Nurseries:

ACT

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Cool Country Natives

NSW

Burringbar Rainforest Nursery

Growing Friends Nursery

Harvest Seeds & Native Plants

Mullum Creek Native Nursery

Muswellbrook Forest Nursery

Randwick Community Nursery

Sustainable Natives

Sydney Wildflower Nursery

Wirin Wirra Nursery, Tomerong

QLD

Barung Native Plant Nursery

Bunya Nurseries

Brush Turkey Enterprises

CDTLI Bush Garden Nursery - Townsville

Coolum Community Native Nursery

Forest Heart

Kumbartcho Nursery

Paten Park Native Nursery

SA

Provenance Indigenous Plants

State Flora

TAS

Habitat Plants

Plants of Tasmania Nursery

VIC

Bili Nursery, Port Melbourne

Candlebark Community Nursery

Carrum Indigenous Nursery Inc.

CERES Nursery (Bushfoods)

Frankston Indigenous Nursery

Kuranga Native Nursery

La Trobe Wildlife Sanctuary

Newport Lakes Native Nursery

Otways Indigenous Nursery

St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Co-operative

Victorian Indigenous Nurseries Co-operative

WA

Apace

Lullfitz Nursery

Zanthorrea Nursery

Related subs:

r/ausenviro

r/australianfish

r/australianbirds

r/australianplantswap

r/australianwildlife

r/botany

r/ecology

r/gardenwild

Useful links:

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Conservation Volunteers

Biodiversity of the Western Volcanic Plains

Grow Me Instead

Native or indigenous: do you know the difference?

Nature Share

The flower in the top right hand corner is Chrysocephalum semipapposum, Clustered Everlasting.

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Grevillea petrophiloides ssp. remota

This is a stunning WA grevillea, previously not well known in cultivation due to difficulty in growing it, new graft combinations are now allowing it to see some favour.

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2024/11/10
10:31 UTC

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Hardenbergia violacea - Happy Wanderer (SA)

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2024/11/10
07:31 UTC

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Rhodanthe chlorocephala ssp. rosea

A real daisy this time!

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2024/11/09
10:33 UTC

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Help! Brown spots on Tuckeroo.

Hi all! I need help & would so appreciate some advice.

My partner & I bought a young Tuckeroo & olive trees from a nursery & planted them a couple weeks ago. The olive trees seem to be doing ok but I noticed several leaves on the Tuckeroo have developed brown spots.

I’ve attached a picture. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

We planted it according to the supplier’s advice & have been watering it daily. We’re very inexperienced with gardening & would appreciate any helpful tips!

5 Comments
2024/11/09
07:42 UTC

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Actinodium cunninghamii

Looks like a daisy, but actually in the Myrtaceae family. Beautiful, but unfortunately difficult to grow.

I have a sneaking suspicion this is actually Actinodium sp. Fitzgerald River, but it isn’t labelled as such by the ANBG, where I took this photo.

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2024/11/08
11:07 UTC

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Is this toxic to cats?

Received an Australian native bouquet as a present but worried about them being toxic to cats.

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2024/11/08
03:50 UTC

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Pimelea ferruginea ‘Magenta Mist’

Stunning little WA native. Also a good rootstock for less hardy relatives.

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2024/11/07
10:56 UTC

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Recommend wanted for a fast growing native soft foliage hedge against colorbond approx 2m high by 1m wide.

Hello,

As per title I’d like a hedge that will serve to mitigate the heat reflected by the colorbond and serve as a windbreaker, habitat refuge and food source for the wildlife.

Basically the ideal height would be kept between 1.8 and 2m high and 1 and 1.5 wide. Six in total.

In one spot I’d prefer if the height was 1m so might need something different there.

Ideally I’d love something like Callistamon Ivanhoe, Pink Champagne, Sugar Candy or Silver Cloud or Gravellia Dorothy Gordon but I don’t know how they would go with being pruned, coastal winds or the high heat from the colorbond.

I have more room to work with for the right hedge but ideally would like to do a square of the one single type of hedge and put a bench in the middle for a little retreat within the garden.

Recommendations gratefully appreciated. Location: Melbourne.

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2024/11/07
00:15 UTC

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Calytrix tetragona - Common Fringe Myrtle (SA)

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2024/11/06
20:39 UTC

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Can you help identify?

I’ve forgotten what I planted! I think I need to move this plant as it’s not enjoying life but want to understand its conditions. However, I’ve forgotten what it is.

4 Comments
2024/11/06
19:56 UTC

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Alyogyne ‘Aussie Purple’

This is a hybrid of A. huegelii and A. hakeifolia. A fabulous medium shrub

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2024/11/06
12:28 UTC

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