Austalian Plants Societ Armidale & Distict Group PO Box 735 Armidale NSW 2350 h p://www.anps-armidale.org.au
Volume 33, No. 4 ISSN
Spring Edi on 2012 It’s Wa le me on the Tablelands Crowea exalata ssp. magnifolia
Acacia buxifolia
Acacia longifolia
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Contact Us: Armidale & District Group! PO Box 735 Armidale NSW 2350 President/Newsletter: !! Maria Hitchcock !Ph: 6775 1139 !! E: [email protected] Secretary: !!!Barry Tolchard !!Ph: 6772 7512 !! E: [email protected] Treasurer: !!! John Nevin !!Ph: 6775 2128 !! E: [email protected]
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APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 1 GROUP INFORMATION The Armidale and District Group of APS---NSW started on 6th August, 1977 as the New England Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants. It has been running con nuously since that me with a couple of name changes. We are a very friendly and helpful group who enjoy monthly forums and mee ngs, garden visits and field trips to help members enjoy the search for knowledge about our na ve flora and our local environment. We range from raw beginners to others who have been gardening and researching for many years - all willing to share their knowledge.
Formal Mee ngs are held at 5.30pm on the second Tuesday of each month. Members are welcome to a end. Na ve Plant and Garden Forums are held in the TAFE Library Seminar Room on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (except June, July, December and January) from 7.30 – 9.30 where members talk about plants in flower from specimens displayed on the flower table and share informa on about gardening topics. The Forum is followed by a delicious supper and an interes ng speaker. Old and new members, visitors and families, are very welcome at these Forums and on our ou ngs (see page 8 for details). Annual General Mee ng is held in February. Sols ce Func on is held in June. This is usually a lunch and garden ramble at the home of one of our members. Wa le Day Ac vity is held on a day closest to 1 September. Christmas Party is held early in December at the home of one of our members. We also lead regular trips into the bush and the occasional weekend escape to the coast or elsewhere. We par cipate in St Peter’s Garden Tour in November each year, opening one of our gardens to the public and holding our Giant Annual Plant Sale. We hold a Market Stall each month in the Mall. Come along and say hello. Our members have also been ac ve in developing and maintaining the Na ve Garden beds at the Arboretum. We welcome volunteers who would like to help. See p.8 for our calendar and details of events. ALL YOU NEED TO JOIN OUR GROUP IS AN INTEREST IN OUR NATIVE PLANTS
Your President writes: As a follow up, Bill Aitchison, Leader of the Acacia SG gave a talk on wa les at our August mee ng. There are It’s been a long and hard winter with a record number of over 1000 species across Australia with a huge varia on frosts persis ng into September. The garden has only in phyllode size, shape and flowering period. just started to move but the dry weather is holding it back. This is the me that it’s easy to lose plants and On September 1, The HOn. Peter Garre launched my that has been the case in my garden with a few new book ‘A Celebra on of Wa le’ at the ANBG. The casual es no ced over the past week. The Sols ce launch was an enormous success with over 80 people in luncheon was great, thanks to Barry who held the fort in a endance and the bookshop sold out all their supply Cynthia’s absence. Barry and Cynthia have done a large plus two extra boxes brought up by David Rosenberg, amount of plan ng and I look forward to seeing their the publisher. People were buying mul ple copies and windbreak along the front fence when it grows up a bit. some were to be donated to Primary schools which was nice. At the same me the local group held a Wa le Day A number of us came together in July to plant out the lunch with everyone wearing their sprigs of wa le. rest of the Lomandras. We decided to divide our labour so that some dug, some planted and some watered. This I am sending this newsle er out early as I am about to system worked very well. Hopefully the Lomandras will go to Canada for my daughter’s wedding and to catch up fill out the ground layer and inhibit weed growth making with old friends. A small group of members will be going maintenance easier. They will also provide a neat li le to Coffs Harbour for our return visit and the Coffs eco-system for lizards, frogs and other small creatures. Harbour Group have put together a wonderful program. (See the ar cle included in this newsle er). The September Forum will be on Weeds and their The Acacia Study Group Tour of the Tablelands was a Management. The speaker is James Browning, Weeds resounding success and I have wri en it up for this Officer from the New England Weeds Authority who has newsle er. Altogether we found 51 species but there promised to bring along some small iden fica on are more that we didn’t see. This area is par cularly rich guides. It sounds really interes ng and I’m sorry to miss in Acacias but not many of the species are being grown it. in local gardens which is a pity. I feel we need to promote the smaller species in par cular. perhaps this is Don’t forget Sunday, 14th October, when we host something the group could look at as a future Tamworth group. We need lots of hands on deck and project. good news: Angus Stewart has confirmed as our speaker in November. Maria
APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 2 Acacia Tour of the Tablelands It was star ng to get late but John wanted to show us a Text and images by Maria Hitchcock whole lot more on the Gulf Rd. We stopped along the way and sighted A. dawsonii, A. dealbata, A. montana, The group of Acacia Study Group members met on A. viscidula, A. neriifolia, A. pubifolia, A. burbidgeae, Friday, 17th August to begin their Acacia tour, which had A. filicifolia and A. buxifolia. Up a rocky hillside we came been expertly prepared by John Nevin. John had gone to across Olearia ramosissima and Zieria cy soides in enormous trouble to prepare a folder for everyone with several colour forms. It had been a long but highly illustrated descrip ons of all the wa les on the successful day Acacia spo ng and we were happy to Tablelands, daily programs with all the stops marked, a have an early night a er dinner. checklist and species lists for the various Na onal Parks we would visit. A er dinner I gave a presenta on on the Emblem and Wa le Day and had a mini launch of my new book ‘A Celebra on of Wa le’.
Some of the group at Mulligan’s Hut
The next morning dawned very cold but sunny and dry. This me we set off along the highway towards Gibraltar Range Na onal Park. At various stops along the way we came across A. filicifolia, A. irrorata, A. neoanglica, A. falcata, A. falciformis, A stricta, A. floribunda, A. rubida, A. melanoxylon, A. suaveolens, A. venulosa, Acacia pruinosa beadleana, A. terminalis and A. mitchellii. We also saw Banksia marginata, Callicoma serra folia, Boronia On Saturday morning we headed for Bolivia Hill where anethifolius, Hovea pedunculata and Telopea aspera. John took us along the old abandoned railway line to A er lunch we drove down Mulligan’s Hut track and view the Acacias. Along the way we saw Acacia rubida stopped to check out A. barringtonensis, A. obtusifolia, and A. fimbriata. At Bolivia Hill we spo ed the rare A. A. ulicifolia, A. buxifolia, A. irrorata, A. floribunda, A. pycnostachya, A. neriifolia and A. fimbriata. We then melanoxylon, A. mitchellii and a couple of mystery drove to Torrington to the Blatherarm sec on where we wa les which turned out to be A. ixodes and A. orites. stopped several mes and spo ed A. longifolia, A. betchei, A neoanglica, A. buxifolia, A. torringtonensis, A. On Monday the group headed down Bundarra Rd, where filicifolia and A. ulicifolia. This area is dominated by large they saw A. leptoclada, A. triptera, A. leucoclada, stands of Banksia neoanglica and we were lucky to find a A. buxifolia, A. paradoxa, A. dawsonii, A. neoanglica, couple of yellow forms. A. falciformis, A. viscidula, A. pruinosa, A. flexifolia, A. neriifolia, A. filicifolia and A. rubida. A side trip was From there we drove back to Mystery Face Rd and found then made to Dangars Falls to look at A. diphylla and the Butler Firebreak. This area had a rich collec on of A. ingramii. Altogether the group was able to record the wa les which included A. venulosa, A. macnu ana, A. loca ons of 51 species of Acacia, a remarkable effort. betchei, A. ulicifolia, A. longifolia, A. brownii, A. williamsiana and A. filicifolia. Near Torrington village we Bill Aitchison, the leader of the Acacia Study Group spent drove down Sherrets Lane and clambered over the large another day in Armidale and was our speaker at the granite rockfaces. Among the boulders were A.la sepala, August Forum. We are truly blessed with such a A. ulicifolia, A. fimbriata and A. filcifolia as well as the marvelous collec on of Acacias in our region. Our next rare Phebalium rotundifolium and Boronia ledifolia. Near project is to try to propagate as many as possible and Emmaville we came across some beau ful A. pruinosa, encourage people to grow them in their gardens. A. buxifolia and a plant of A. decurrens which was definitely out of its range and must have come in as a seed somehow.
APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 3 Tasmanian Loma as width of leaf segments is also extremely varied. Text by Dick Burns Eucryphia June 2012 Established plants will sucker so that as you walk through the bush - say along the Cape Pillar Track - the Loma a is a genus in the family Proteaceae. The plants will have the same leaf, then one step on and a proteaceous flower lacks the usual sepal new leaf pa ern appears. 'Tinctoria’ implies usefulness and petal combina on, and has only one layer in dyeing: when I heated wool with Loma a foliage, the surrounding the sexual organs, consis ng wool turned fawn with alum mordant and rich chocolate of 'tepals'. There are always four tepals but they are with chromate. fused to a varied extent. The pollen-producing anthers are usually fused to tepal lobes. In many genera,the style Loma a polymorpha has a shorter, more-hemispherical is trapped by fused tepals, with the s gma (the receiver flower head, but can vary. Leaf surfaces are dull of pollen) res ng on the anther. In this situa on compared with L. nctoria and have brown hairs on the the s gma is commonly called the pollen presenter. underside. L. nctoria is more polymorphic than this When the flower is ready to give up its pollen, the pollen species. My greatest memory of L. polymorpha was presenter is released. A er sufficient me has elapsed on a walk with Mary Sla ery, Jennie and Walter for its pollen to have been gathered, the p becomes Lawrence and two other friends in the far south west. recep ve to other flowers' pollen. Just behind the dunes of Noyhenner Beach was a forest of this species, in full flower and perfume. The above two species will hybridise and the result is spectacular. An easy place to see the hybrid is around Cynthia Bay or at the Tasmanian Arboretum. When I was trying to Iearn how to recognise Tasmanian plants, the Loma as around Cynthia Bay were confusing with the wide variety of leaf shape, colour on the underside and degree of glossiness. Then Flora of Australia volume 16 (p. 381) recognised hybrids.
The third Tasmanian species is Loma a tasmanica. It is unusual in a number of ways. It has red flowers, is found Loma a nctoria in Canberra only in one gully along the south coast and does not Image: friendsanbg.org.au produce seed, spreading through rhizome growth. Fossil leaves were found some kilometres away and dated at The botanist who described and named Loma a was around 40,000 years old so the gene stock makes this Robert Brown (1773-1858), the greatest botanist of his plant the oldest in the world. It has proved almost me. As a young man, he came to Australia on the impossible to bring into cul va on: gra ing onto L. Inves gator with Ma hew Flinders. He spent me nctoria stock has yielded some success. For a me this collec ng plant material from around Sydney and in beau ful plant suffered with one of those imposed 1804 visited the Tamar Valley before white se lement common names, King’s Holly. It was preferable to link arrived and spent some months in the new se lement of Loma a tasmanica to one of the State’s environmental Hobart Town. Brunonia, the blue-flowered perennial, is weeds rather than use the mellifluous name that Robert named for him; he collected the first material Brown conceived. As I remember it, APST led the fight while in the Tamar region. Brown named Loma a for the for change to King’s Loma a. ridge he no ced around the wing of the seed; loma indicates 'fringed'. The first species he described was one from the"Sydney sandstone, Loma a silaifolia. The leaves reminded Brown of Silaum, a saxifrage. My plant is some thirty years old and never flowered. Perhaps I should burn it!The best flowering I saw was on plants regenera ng a er a fire in the Blue Mountains.
Tasmania has three species, all endemic to Tasmania, the most widespread being Loma a nctoria. It o en grows tall with few lanky stems, but is occasionally Iower and much-branched. A plant next to the car park of the Australian Na onal Botanic Gardens in Canberra is some three metres high and the same distance across. The Loma a tasmanica Photo: Kris Schaffer apstas.com
APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 4 Vale John Leslie Love ‘Jobbie’ 26.6.41 - 15.5.12 worst and John tells the story of how he was holed up in a Husband of Anne block of units and this one morning snuck out to post a le er home to let them know he was OK....this same morning the army came round and went through the flats he was living in ....who knows what might have happened had he been there. At that me John had long hair and beard and spoke very li le Spanish. John also spent a couple of years in South Africa working in mines. Returning to Australia he worked again and finally had enough cash to purchase his first love affec onately known as “Snoopy” a long wheel base Toyota. He lived in this vehicle totally for ten years it was his office, kitchen, wardrobe, bedroom and wheels and today is s ll completely packed to go into the fields as his prospec ng took him for weeks on end. John was a bush mechanic and knew his vehicle inside out and everything she carried. It was perfectly natural to take a break to service the vehicle changing oil etc just in the dirt anywhere ...he liked it much be er when there was a cement pad to park and service. A er a long illness, John died peacefully in his sleep In the 1980’s John had a gravel pit at Humpty Doo. at his home on Dumaresq Dam Rd surrounded by his family. A With a friend and partner they found gold in tailings south of memorial service was held for him on the property. Patrick Pine creek and without doing the mining sold them off and Laher and Maria Hitchcock a ended on your behalf. Maria moved down to Tennant Creek where they set up and provided a large spray of Eucalyptus bicostata leaves and rehashed the tailings at Eldorado mine, some me later the gumnuts for the coffin. In his early life John was a geologist and gold prospector and a keen enthusiast for our flora. A partnership was dissolved and John finally completed trea ng memorial grove is being planted on the property and the old tailings solo. This old mine site was completed and members are invited to contribute a tree or shrub. Anne is seeded by hand in 1999 ....today it is a magnificent site currently travelling and should be back towards the end of the covered with growing natural vegeta on indigenous to this year. She wrote this. area. John Leslie Love was born on 26/6/1941 in Adelaide. I had met John within days of arrival in TC in 1990 Around 1950 the family now with three boys moved to and it was an instant friendship for both of us and in Sydney. Their mother thought the best thing she could do September 1999 we drove out heading for the greener, with this new era of life a er the war was to make sure the colder, cleaner Tasmania taking up residence at Ba ery Point boys had a good educa on and they in turn were enrolled at overlooking the Derwent River. Missing my grown up family Knox Grammar at Wahroonga. By the me John had we moved back to the mainland to Stroud where I owned a completed his secondary educa on he was totally convinced small acreage and home. In 2002 John and I were married. We his field of work was geology and began his studies at UNSW. had o en spoken about owning more land and at short no ce He did work experience at Mount Isa and when finished he in 2006 of being advised of Shannon Grove on Dumaresq Dam hitched a ride on an ore truck and travelled over to Tennant Road the property was ours and we moved in. We renovated Creek where he found employment at Peko Mine working our home and made our house gardens, planted around 1000 underground and loved it. na ves and looked forward to travel and re rement if I could In this early stage of his career he met John Elliston get John to accept that word. Unfortunately John was first who showed him a different understanding of the rocks and diagnosed with renal cancer when we moved to Armidale in minerals and how the earth in its upheaval laid down the 2006. We were fortunate to have a ten week wonderful layers of mountains and crusts of our world. Dr. Elliston was holiday in our motor home from Sept 2011 and on arrival his mentor, a great man understanding the forma ons which home found the tumors had spread. The last six months we John would imitate by mixing slurry of all kinds pouring it out spent dealing with the problem which was now rampant. to see just how it would have been many thousands of years John remained at home throughout this last period...a previously. John travelled overseas holidaying and working wonderful pa ent, independent to the last and always with a and found himself in Antafagasta when Pinoche was at his smile. His mo o was op mism, pa ence, and perseverance. John will be missed by many.
APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 5 Arboretum Report - February to July 2012 Text by Patrick Laher, images by Maria Hitchcock
Excellent progress has been made at our working bees at the Arboretum. We have been able to finish plan ng out the 520 Hiko Lomandra longifolia plants in the three New England Flora beds as well as mulching other beds and keeping the area clean and dy.
Patrick Laher
Thanks to the following for their fantas c help: Colin Wilson, Phil and Julia Rose, John and Barbara Thelma Dennis and Julia Rose Nevin, Maria Hitchcock, Barry Tolchard and Cynthia Stuhlmiller, Helen Schwarz, Tom Livanos, Suzanne Perhaps next year we could do another Hiko plan ng Robertson and Thelma Dennis. and it should be easier as all the other beds don’t have plas c weed ma ng! A couple more working bees and New Book the Proteaceae bed should be pruned and mulched and A Celebra on of Wa le then we can either start on the NSW Flora bed or do Paperback RRP $29.95 some addi onal plan ngs amongst exis ng plants next Available at bookshops and from the author to the walking tracks.
Phil Rose, Barbara Nevin and Colin Wilson
Market Sundays - February to June 2012 New Book Text by Patrick Laher Tasmania's Natural Flora (2nd Ed.) Australian Plant Society Tasmania Inc. Hobart Group Plant sales at the markets have so far been be er than Paperback RRP $59.95 for the same period last year, with 134 sold compared 100 hard cover copies will be available to members to 120 in 2011. Perhaps the public has become aware at $62.00 per copy from the Hobart Group. of the value of our advice and the price and variety of Please direct all orders to Chris ne Howells at the plant species that we have on offer. Thanks to tasna [email protected]. John and Barbara Nevin and Phil Rose for their help so Postage is extra, so if possible please place bulk far this year. orders to keep your costs down.
APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 6 Study finds Mistletoe Key to Landscape formed a rela vely small propor on of the biomass in Text by Anna Salleh ABC Science Online the woodland. "Just taking out this single plant from the Wednesday, 11 July 2012 canopy ... we lost a third of the woodland bird species, within three years," says Watson. He says the effect was far greater than an cipated and gives strong support to A unique experiment has shown the subtle but key role the keystone hypothesis. parasi c mistletoe plays in the ecology of Australian woodlands. The work is published today in the Interes ngly, the results showed that mistletoe's journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. "This is a keystone role is different to what was predicted. The future textbook example of not just how an ecological birds most affected, were not, as expected, those who keystone works but how you go about tes ng it," says fed or nested in mistletoe, but those which fed on ecologist Professor David Watson of Charles Sturt insects, says Watson. He says other research shows that University. mistletoe drops fer lising li er at a far greater rate than non-parasi c plants. This li er, says Watson, has an A keystone species has a huge effect on the richness and impact on li er-dwelling insects, which in turn impacts distribu on of species around it, through interac ons it on insec vorous birds that feed on them. has with other organisms. For example, the big rainforest cassowary bird, which is the only species that "This is not a bird effect, this is an insec vore effect," he is able to disperse seeds that have large fruit, is believed says. "We're seeing a complete shi in the food webs in to be a keystone species. If it was not there, many trees these woodlands." "It's a pre y subtle series of would no longer be dispersed and the birds that depend interac ons that manifests as losing a third of your on these would in turn be affected. species when you take that ny li le tweak and remove that one plant." But, says Watson it is o en difficult to test whether something is a keystone species. He says the best test is to remove the species and see what happens, but this is o en difficult and ethically fraught. For example, he says Tamworth Group Visit removing cassowaries in the Daintree would be a "non- Sunday 14th October starter". Program In the first test of puta ve keystone plant species, Watson and colleague Ma hew Herring carried out an experiment to see what would happen when mistletoe 10 – 11.30 UNE Botany Department was removed from Australian woodland. Mistletoe is a Herbarium visit led by Ian Telford relic from Gondwana and there are now 91 species of Morning tea in tea room mistletoe in Australia. Kath Wray - Wildlife corridors It is a parasi c plant that lives by sucking out nutrients 11.30 – 12.00 Judith Wright Grove, from the trees and shrubs it lives in, but as the latest Susie Dunn to talk about Judith Wright evidence shows this is far from detrimental to the ecology. In 2001, Watson no ced that many birds 12.00 – 1.30 Lunch at Arboretum nested or fed in mistletoe and he suggested that the Patrick Laher to talk about the gardens plant may be a keystone resource. He secured funding and working bees, future direc ons from the Australian Research Council to carry out a five- year experiment to test this hypothesis in the southern 1.30 – 2.30 Mary Wright’s garden. Riverina area of south eastern Australia. 93A The Avenue The experiment involved the painstaking task of 2.30 – 3.30 Thiele garden. removing mistletoe from the tree canopy in 17 field 9 Ellio St (behind cemetery) sites ranging from five to 25 hectares in size. "It was a A ernoon tea royal pain in the ass. It took teams of volunteers months and months to remove about 46 tonnes. It was a Please mark the date in your diary and join us to host considerable logis cal exercise," says Watson. Tamworth Group members and make this a really The researchers also had 11 control sites where enjoyable day. We would welcome slices, cakes, etc. for mistletoe was le and 12 sites in which mistletoe was the morning and a ernoon teas. naturally absent. Three years later, they went back to determine the impact of removing the mistletoe, which
APS NSW - Armidale & District Group Spring 2012 Newsle er page 7 FOR YOUR DIARY: September 2012 – December 2012
September: Saturday 8 1.00 - 3.00pm Arboretum Working Bee Tuesday 11 5.30 - 7.00pm Business Mee ng at the Mulquiney’s place Tuesday 18 7.30 - 9.30 Na ve Plants Forum in the TAFE Library Seminar Room. Speaker: James Browning - Local weeds and their management Sat/Sun 22/23 Coffs Harbour visit Sunday 30 8.00 - 1.00pm Markets in the Mall
October: Saturday 6 1.00 - 3.00pm Arboretum Working Bee Tuesday 9 5.30 - 7.00pm Business Mee ng at the Mulquiney’s place Sunday 14 Tamworth Group visit to Armidale (details in this newsle er) Tuesday 16 7.30 - 9.30 Na ve Plants Forum in the TAFE Library Seminar Room. Speaker: M. Hitchcock - Growing Waratahs (Roster for St Peters weekend) Sat/Sun 27/28 Mole Sta on weekend Sunday 28 8.00 - 1.00pm Markets in the Mall
November: Saturday 3/4 10.00 - 4.00pm St Peters Open Gardens Weekend. Plant sale at Roseneath (Roster at October Forum) Saturday 10 1.00 - 3.00pm Arboretum Working Bee Tuesday 13 5.30 - 7.00pm Business Mee ng at the Mulquiney’s place Tuesday 20 7.30 - 9.30 Na ve Plants Forum in the TAFE Library Seminar Room. Speaker: Angus Stewart Sunday 25 8.00 - 1.00pm Markets in the Mall
December: Sunday 2 12.30 Christmas Luncheon at Elwyn Hegarty’s place (23 Lynches Rd opposite Beadle Grove) Walk through Black Gully Reserve to the Manna Gum Reserve.
TAFE Library Seminar Room. The Seminar Room is in the Library Building and is within easy walking distance from on-street parking or from one of the TAFE car parks. There are three car parks in the TAFE grounds with entry from Beardy St, Rusden St or Allingham St. The Library is situated in the middle of the campus behind the main building fron ng Beardy St. You can walk through the main building to get to the Library. The nearest car park is immediately behind the Library building with entry from Rusden St. beside the Automo ve Building. The Seminar Room has gas hea ng, accessible toilets and comfortable sea ng. It has up to date electronic equipment for presenta ons and a small kitchen with instant boiling water.
The group iden fying Acacias on the Wa le Tour of the Tablelands
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