Seed
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Acacia aculeatissima
Thin-leaf Wattle
Read More...General Description: A prickly sprawling shrub to 60 cm tall with wiry branches spreading for 1 m or more, fine, dark green foliage and yellow, globular flower clusters, on short stalks. This plant is more sprawling when growing under trees and forms a compact small bush when growing in the open. Flowers and Fruit: Typical ...
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Acacia dealbata
Silver Wattle
Read More...General Description: A smooth trunked tree, silvery grey or greyish green in colour. Small and spindly to 5 meters high on poorer, drier sites and a tall tree to 20 meters in high rainfall areas. Has feathery grey-green foliage and bark that is smooth, dark brown and usually blotched with grey lichens. Young small branches ...
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Acacia melanoxylon
Blackwood
Read More...General Description: Varies from a small to large tree, 6-30 meters high with a dense, dark green crown. In open situations it is a small to medium tree with branches low to the ground. Tall trees with a well developed trunk occur in cooler, moist areas on deep soils. Bark is dark grey-brown, hard and ...
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Acacia nano-dealbata
Dwarf Silver Wattle
Read More...General Description: Erect or spreading tall shrub or small tree to 5 m tall, with feathery grey-green foliage, and pale yellow, globular, flower clusters, arising from leaf axils. The bark is dark brown and smooth and is often blotched with grey lichens. Leaves are Bipinnate and alternate along angled stems, each pair has a single ...
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Acacia paradoxa
Hedge Wattle
Read More...General Description: Dense, spreading small to medium shrub, 2-4 m high, often with arched or pendulous branches bearing many short, sharp spines, and yellow, globular flower clusters, arising from leaf axils on short stalks. Flowers and Fruit: Dense, round heads formed from orange-yellow stamens. Flowers August to November. Fruit is a straight or slightly curved ...
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Acacia verticillata
Prickly Moses
Read More...General Description: Prickly, medium to tall shrub to 4 m tall with green, needle-like foliage arranged in whorls and spreading often down curved branches. Flowers and Fruit: The flower headsare lemon-yellow and cylindrical in shape, flowering can occur from July to December. The seed pods are flat, narrow and almost straight with only slight constrictions ...
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Acaena novae-zelandiae
Bidgee-widgee
Read More...General Description: A perennial herb, to 20 cm tall, with long, leaves at the base of erect stems bearing dense, globular clusters of small, cream flowers which become spiny burrs. This rambling plant forms mats which cover the ground. Flowers and Fruit: Many in a globular cluster to 25 mm wide. Flowers are pale green ...
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Aceana echinata
Sheep’s Burr
Read More...General Description: A perennial herb, to 40 cm tall, with long, pinnate leaves at the base of erect stems bearing interrupted clusters of small, cream flowers or spiny fruit with a larger, almost globular cluster at the end. Flowers and Fruit: Many in clusters along stem. Individual flowers, pale green and purple, about 2 mm ...
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Allocasuarina littoralis
Black She-oak
Read More...General Description: An open, leafless small tree or large shrub with needles similar to a pine tree, 4 to12 m tall, with fine, curved, grey-green branchlets, and woody cones. Flowers and Fruit: Males and females on separate plants. Males: a narrow spike, to 4 cm long, consisting of orange stamens emerging from branchlets. Females: a ...
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Allocasuarina verticillata
Drooping She-oak
Read More...General Description: A spreading, leafless tree, with needles similar to a pine tree, to 10 m tall, with fine, curved, drooping, grey-green branchlets, and woody cones. In open situations has a well branched, dense crown almost as wide as the tree is high. Flowers and Fruit: Males and females separate. Males: a narrow spike, consisting ...
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Anthosachne scabra
Common Wheat-grass
Read More...General Description: An open tufted, perennial grass with an erect or arched flower stem to 80 cm tall. Inflorescence an elongated, often drooping spike to 15 cm long bearing spikelets with long, curved awns. Leaves are in a sparse tuft at the base and are long and thin and green or bluish in colour. Flowers ...
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Arthropodium milleflorum s.l.
Pale Vanilla-lily
Read More...General Description: A slender, grass-like tufted perennial herb, to 1 m tall, with narrow, slightly fleshy, dark green leaves and pale purple or pink flowers on slender, drooping stalks. Crushed flowers smell like vanilla. Flowers and Fruit: Pale purple or pink, star-shaped, to 15 mm wide, in groups of 2-9. Flowers from November to February. ...
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Arthropodium strictum
Chocolate Lily
Read More...General Description: A slender, grass-like tufted perennial herb, to 1 m tall, with narrow, grass-like leaves and purple flowers on slender, drooping stalks. Flowers smelling of chocolate when crushed. Flowers and Fruit: Purple, star-shaped, to 15 mm wide, solitary. Flowers October to December Fruit is a round, 3-chambered capsule, to 7 mm wide, contains small, ...
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Austrostipa semibarbata
Spear Grass
Read More...General Description: A sparsely tufted, perennial grass, to 90 cm tall with a narrow, chaffy flower head, to 25 cm long, contains spear-like flowers with long, twisted awns. Flowers and Fruit: Large dense erect flowers with more than 30 spikelets. Seeds have a base which forms a sharp, curved point. Tip extended into a long, ...
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Banksia marginata (tree form)
Silver Banksia
Read More...General Description: This seed is from the tree form of Banksia marginata, it is a beautiful small tree, to 9 m tall, with large, dark green leaves and pale to bright yellow flowers massed in large, cylindrical spikes. Flowers and Fruit: Hundreds massed together in dense, yellow, cylindrical spikes, from 5 to 15 cm long. ...
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Billardiera scandens
Common Apple-berry
Read More...General Description: A woody climber with narrow leaves and cream, tubular flowers, solitary, or in groups of three on slender, drooping stalks in leaf axils. New growth is soft light green and hairy. Leaf margins are often wavy, sometimes curved under. Flowers and Fruit: Cream, tubular or bell-shaped, to 23 mm long. Petals are sometimes ...
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Brunonia australis
Blue Pincushion
Read More...General Description: A perennial herb, to 30 cm tall, with long, narrow leaves at the base of slender stems bearing a hemispherical cluster, to 30 mm wide, of small, blue flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Dense blue pincushion-like flower-heads from September to February. There are several seeds per fruiting head which form once flowering is finished. ...
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Bulbine bulbosa
Bulbine Lily
Read More...General Description: A tufted, perennial herb, to 50 cm tall, with narrow, grass-like hollow leaves, and yellow star-like flowers, clustered on leafless flowering stems. Flowers and Fruit: Yellow, star-shaped flowers, to 35 mm wide from September to February. Fruit is a round, 7 mm wide, capsule, containing small, black seeds. Site Preference and Tolerances: A ...
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Burchardia umbellata
Milkmaids
Read More...General Description: A slender, annual herb, to 65 cm tall, with one or two, narrow, grass-like fleshy leaves at the base of erect stems bearing 2-9 white, honey scented, flowers at the top. Flowers and Fruit: White, star-shaped, to 20 mm wide. Flowers from July to November. The pink triangular ovary in the centre of ...
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Bursaria spinosa
Sweet Bursaria
Read More...General Description: A shrub or small tree, to 6m tall, with small leaves along spiny stems, and dense sprays of white, perfumed flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Masses of fragrant, creamy-white bunches of flowers at the end of branches. Clusters of bronze seed capsules follow flowering. Flowers from October to March. Fruit is a flat, 2-lobed ...
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Callistemon sieberi
River Bottlebrush
Read More...General Description: An erect shrub, to 3 m tall, with narrow leaves and pale yellow or pink, ‘bottle-brush’ flower spikes. Has willowy appearance with numerous, slender and often drooping branches. The leaves are grey-green and tapering at both ends, young leaves are silky and have a red colour. Flowers and Fruit: Pale yellow or pink ...
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Carex appressa
Tall Sedge
Read More...General Description: This is a robust, tufted, mid-green sedge with erect, sharply 3-angled flower stems (edges finely and sharply toothed and capable of inflicting deep cuts) to 1.5 m tall The leaves grow in dense tufts and they are flat near tip and folded (V-shaped in cross-section) near the base, they are smooth except for ...
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Cassinia aculeata
Common Cassinia
Read More...General Description: Dense-crowned, medium to tall shrub 1.5-2.5 m, with dark, often hoary, narrow foliage and numerous, terminal, domed white (buds may be pink) or dusky pink flower-heads during Summer. Leaves are vaguely camphor-scented and sometimes cause skin irritation. Flowers and Fruit: White or sometimes dusky pink, clustered into domed flower heads up to 12 ...
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Chrysocephalum semipapposum
Clustered Everlasting
Read More...General Description: A tufted, perennial, mid-green to pale grey-green herb with erect, leafy stems to 1 m tall. Flower is made up of a number of bright yellow, globular flower heads, clustered at the stem tips. Flowers and Fruit: Small yellow flowers in terminal clusters, flowers from September to May. Seeds are small and blow ...
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Clematis aristata
Mountain Clematis
Read More...General Description: Vigorous forest climber which can ascend to the upper storey canopy, to 15m high, with dark green foliage and large, cream-coloured flowers. Juvenile leaves have white markings above and are purple below. Flowers and Fruit: Masses of creamy white starry flowers to 60mm across, male and female plants separate but flowers are superficially ...
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Coronidium scorpioides
Button Everlasting
Read More...General Description: Woolly, green leaves form a rosette at the base of this herb, producing an annual, 20-30 cm tall stalk, bearing a single, showy yellow, flower head 3 cm across. Flowers and Fruit: Everlasting daisy flower bright yellow in colour from September to February. Fruit consists of dark cylindrical seeds, 3-4 mm long, crowned ...
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Craspedia paludicola
Swamp Billy-buttons
Read More...General Description: An erect, perennial herb, to 75 cm tall, with narrow leaves, at the base of and along red to purple flower stems, which bear a large, yellow, ‘button flower’. Flowers and Fruit: Globular, yellow, flower-heads on slender stems, to 30 mm diameter, consisting of numerous, small tubular florets. Flowers from September to February. ...
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Craspedia variabilis
Variable Billy-buttons
Read More...General Description: An erect, perennial herb, to 40 cm tall, with narrow leaves, at the base of and along yellow to red flower stems, which bear a large, round, yellow, ‘button flower’. Flowers and Fruit: A round, golden yellow, ‘button flower’, to 25 mm diameter, consisting of numerous, small tubular florets. Flowers from September to ...
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Daviesia leptophylla
Narrow-leaf Bitter-pea
Read More...General Description: An erect shrub, to 2 m tall, with narrow ‘leaves’ along angular branchlets, and short sprays of yellow and red-brown pea flowers in the axils. The leaves are Phyllodes and are dull green with prominent, longitudinal veins. Flowers and Fruit: Yellow pea flowers, with red-brown near the centre, to 7 mm wide. Flowers ...
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Daviesia ulicifolia
Gorse Bitter-pea
Read More...General Description: An erect, spiny shrub, to 2 m tall, with spine-tipped ‘leaves’ along ridged, more or less hairless branchlets, Small orange-yellow egg-and-bacon flowers in spring. Leaves have a spiny tip and venation is obscure. Flowers and Fruit: Deep yellow pea flowers, with dark red near the centre, to 5 mm wide, Flowers from August ...
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Deyeuxia quadriseta
Reed Bent-grass
Read More...General Description: A non-tufted, sparsely-leafed, robust, perennial grass with flower stems to 1.5 m tall. Inflorescence is a congested, cylindrical, spike-like panicle 6-15 cm long with tiny flowers. Leaves are mainly along the stems. Flowers and Fruit: Flowering stems usually 0.5-1m, one dense flower spike per stem is cylindrical or conical, light green with a ...
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Dianella admixta
Black-anther Flax-lily
Read More...General Description: A robust, tufted lily, to 80 cm tall, with large, coarse, narrow leaves and an erect flower stem, exceeding the foliage, of purple flowers. Leaves are dark green above, often pale, blue-green below with a raised midrib and smooth margins. Flowers and Fruit: Flowers are purple and star-shaped, to 20 mm wide, there ...
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Dianella amoena
Matted Flax-lily
Read More...General Description: Is a tufted matt-forming perennial lily. These loose mats can be up to 5 m wide, making it difficult to distinguish individual plants. Both midrib and margins of leaves have sharp, peg-like teeth. Flower stems are arching to 90cm tall and flowers have pale to deep blue-violet petals which bend backwards towards the ...
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Dillwynia cinerascens
Grey Parrot-pea
Read More...General Description: A compact, sometimes spreading shrub to 1 m tall with clusters, of small, thin, grey-green leaves that are not prickly. Inflorescence a crowded head of bright, orange and red pea flowers at the ends of the branches. Flowers and Fruit: Crowded into heads on branch tips. Sepals fused to from a 5-lobed tube. ...
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Discaria pubescens
Australian Anchor Plant
Read More...General Description: A rigid, spiny shrub, to 2.5 m tall, usually leafless after flowering, with clusters of 10-50 small, white flowers at the base of spines. Spines are rigid and are up to 50 mm long. Flowers and Fruit: Flowers are white and are about 3 mm wide with 4-5 Sepals. Flowers from December to ...
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Eucalyptus melliodora
Yellow Box
Read More...General Description: Generally a broad-crowned, medium to tall tree to 30 m tall. Bark dark brown, fibrous and flaky on lower half of trunk, creamy-yellow and smooth on upper trunk and branches. Flowers and Fruit: Creamy, white flowers produced mainly from December to January. Fruit is wineglass-shaped, pedicels distinct, 6-13 mm long; disc flat but ...
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Eucalyptus obliqua
Messmate Stringybark
Read More...General Description: Usually a tall, straight tree with spreading crown, to 50 m tall, but smaller and more-branched on poorer soils. Bark brown, fibrous and fissured, persistent to smaller branches. Flowers and Fruit: Produces profuse white-cream flowers from December to February. Wineglass-shaped, fruit is often flared slightly near rim, 6-10 mm long, disc sloping steeply ...
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Eucalyptus ovata
Swamp Gum
Read More...General Description: A medium to tall tree to 30 m tall, often branching quite near to the ground. Bark dark brown and sub-fibrous on lower trunk, smooth and mostly pale grey on upper trunk and branches. Flowers and Fruit: White flowers are produced from March to July. Fruit is on a very short stalk and ...
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Eucalyptus radiata s.l.
Narrow-leaf Peppermint
Read More...General Description: Medium tree to 15 m (or occasionally 30 m in mountain areas), with dense, spreading, pendulous crown. Bark grey-brown, fine textured, fibrous, persistent to all but smallest branches. Flowers and Fruit: Prolific white-cream flowers from October to January. Fruit is small and pear-shaped with narrow flat rims and small valves. Fruit can be ...
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Eucalyptus rubida
Candlebark
Read More...General Description: A small to medium tree to 30 meters high with a clear, straight trunk at its best, but can also be a small, poorly-formed tree. Leaves are mid to dark green and Juvenile ones are opposite, almost round and symmetric. Bark is shed in strips from the whole tree leaving a smooth, powdery ...
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Eucalyptus viminalis
Manna Gum
Read More...General Description: One of the most widespread and variable eucalypts in Victoria. This seed is collected from lovely spreading trees, to about 20 m, which have large branches to a low level. Bark is rough and persistent at the base of the trunk The remaining trunk and branches have smooth, white to yellowish bark, peeling ...
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Eucalyptus yarraensis
Yarra Gum
Read More...General Description: A small, spreading tree to 20 m tall. Trunk branched from near base. Bark fibrous and scaly, persistent to smaller branches. Flowers and Fruit: White flowers from January to February.Wineglass-shaped fruit on distinct stalks and smaller than those for Swamp Gum. Usually in clusters of 7 with 3 to 4 valves at rim ...
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Gompholobium huegelii
Common Wedge-pea
Read More...General Description: An unusual, low or spreading plant with very large yellow pea flowers. Leaflets are held in threes. Leaves are hairless, dull green with margins rolled under. Flowers and Fruit: Bright yellow pea flowers, to 20 mm long. Flowers from September to April, fruit is an ovoid, hairless pod, to 15 x 10 mm. ...
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Hakea decurrens
Bushy Needlewood
Read More...General Description: A shrub or small tree, to 4 m tall, with stiff, crowded, needle-like leaves and clusters of white, sweetly perfumed tubular flowers. Flowers and Fruit: White and pink tubular flowers to 7 mm long from May to September. Fruit is a more or less round, warty and wrinkled, woody capsule with a short, ...
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Hardenbergia violacea
Purple Coral Pea
Read More...General Description: A vigorous, scrambling and twining plant with branchlets to several metres long and large, glossy-green, prominently net-veined, leaves. Flowers consist of masses of deep purple, pea flowers. This indigenous variety does not climb upwards as much as some cultivars, such as ‘Happy Wanderer’ but does an amazing job as a ground cover and ...
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Indigofera australis
Austral Indigo
Read More...General Description: A shrub, to 1.5 m tall, with large, divided, blue-green leaves, and sprays of pale purple, pea flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Pale purple, pea flowers, to 6 mm wide and deep, from August to December. Fruit is a narrow, hairless pod, to 45 mm long. Site Preference and Tolerances: Common on the northern ...
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Leptorhynchos squamatus
Scaly Buttons
Read More...General Description: A slender, perennial, low growing plant with bright yellow button flowers held above the fine foliage, to 30 cm tall. Flowers and Fruit: Single yellow flower heads to 10mm wide from September to April. Fruit consists of small seeds with feathery bristles that allow them to float in the wind. Site Preference and ...
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Leptorhynchos tenuifolius
Wiry Buttons
Read More...General Description: This perennial herb is a low growing plant with 1cm bright yellow button flowers held above the fine foliage. Leaves are initially in a basal rosette (before flowering) but eventually alternate along the stem, they are narrow and long. Flowers and Fruit: Single yellow flower heads to10 mm wide. Flowers from September to ...
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Leptospermum continentale
Prickly Tea-tree
Read More...General Description: A variable, prickly-leaved shrub, usually not taller than 2 m in heath-lands, but occasionally forming taller thickets near streams. The capsular fruits are persistent on older wood. Flowers and Fruit: Masses of white flowers to 10mm wide, from September to February. Fruit are woody capsules 8-11 mm diameter, round and containing seed. Capsules ...
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Leptospermum obovatum
River Tea-tree
Read More...General Description: A shrub, to 3 m tall, with dense, dull to glossy green foliage and creamy white flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Large, white flowers occur crowded together on short leafy branchlets or on the branches, to 12 mm wide from November to January. Fruitis a woody capsule, to 7 mm wide, containing small, brown ...
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Leucochrysum albicans NOT var. tricolor PLEASE NOTE
Hoary Sunray
Read More...General Description: An erect, woolly, silvery, perennial herb, with crowded narrow leaves and showy gold and white, large, everlasting, paper ‘daisy flowers’. Flowers and Fruit: Yellow, ‘daisy flowers’, to 40 mm across, showy, yellow flower-heads are surrounded by white papery bracts held on stems above the leaves, flowers September to February. Conservation: [E] Endangered in ...
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Lomandra filiformis
Wattle Mat-rush
Read More...General Description: A tufted, perennial herb, to 45 cm tall, with dull grey-green grass like leaves (usually with bluntly pointed tips) and fine, branched flower stems bearing small, yellow-brown flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Spray of small yellow rounded flowers. This plant is dioecious which means some plants are male and others are female. Female flowers ...
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Lomandra longifolia
Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Read More...General Description: A robust, dense, tussock, to 1 m tall, with long, narrow, glossy, leaves and dense, spiny clusters of small, yellow-brown flowers along erect, often branching stems, about two-thirds as long as the leaves. Flowers and Fruit: Male and female flowers similar, small, creamy, sweetly perfumed and in spikes, from September to February. Fruit ...
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Melicytus dentatus
Tree Violet (cleaned)
Read More...General Description: A shrub, to 3 m tall, with narrow, dark green leaves and rows of small, fragrant, pale-yellow flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Flowers are yellow, bell-shaped, to 4 mm long and are usually crowded on the branches, found from July to January. Fruit is round, about 4-5 mm wide, fleshy, white to purple in ...
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Microlaena stipoides
Weeping Grass (green)
Read More...General Description: A creeping, leafy perennial grass with slender, arched flower stem to 80 cm long. Flowers and Fruit: Green flowers along arching stemsfromOctober to February. Green seeds form along the green stems. Site Preference and Tolerances: Drought and frost tolerant, mildly salt tolerant. Prefers moist well drained soils and does well in semi shade. ...
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Microseris walteri Only Available Autumn
Yam Daisy
Read More...General Description: An erect, perennial herb to 40 cm tall with large, nodding, yellow, ‘dandelion’ flower head at end of a leafless stem and shiny long narrow toothed leaves. Flowers and Fruit: Single bright yellow daisy flower-head on a stalk from July to November. Fruit consists of fluffy white seed heads (similar to a dandelion ...
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Olearia erubescens
Moth Daisy-bush
Read More...General Description: A low, sprawling shrub, occasionally ascending to 1 m tall, with finely-toothed leaves. Has white and yellow, ‘daisy’ flower heads. Leaves are sharply pointed at the apex and the margins are finely to coarsely toothed and often wavy. Flowers and Fruit: Leafy bunches of daisy flower-heads to 30mm across at or near the ...
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Olearia myrsinoides
Silky Daisy-bush
Read More...General Description: A low sprawling shrub, reaching 50 cm tall, with finely-toothed leaves. Flowers are white and yellow with ‘daisy’ type flower heads. The lower surface of the leaves appears silvery from a dense covering of fine hairs. Flowers and Fruit: Flowers are in tight terminal bunches of daisy flower-heads to 20mm across on short ...
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Ozothamnus obcordatus
Grey Everlasting
Read More...General Description: A compact shrub to 1.5 m tall with erect branches and small, rounded, dark green leaves. Clusters of small yellow flowers make showy flower heads. Flowers and Fruit: Numerous dense clusters of tubular yellow flowers from October to January. Fruit is clusters of small brown seed attached to fine bristles which allow them ...
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Pentapogon quadrifidus
Five-awned Spear-grass
Read More...General Description: A tufted, narrow-leafed, pale green, perennial grass with erect flower stems to 70 cm tall. Flower spike is narrow with bristly flowers at the top. Flowers and Fruit: Moderately dense light brownish spikelets, flowers from October to February. Site Preference and Tolerances: Found in plains grassland, red gum woodland and dry and valley ...
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Pimelea humilis
Common Rice-flower
Read More...General Description: A dwarf and compact shrub, to 30 cm tall, with trusses of white flowers covering the plant in spring and summer. Flowers and Fruit: Flower-head is a cluster of tubular, 4-petalled white flowers. Stem is hairy beneath the flower-head, flowers from September to November. Fruit is a dry capsule, about 5 mm long. ...
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Poa sieberiana
Grey Tussock-grass
Read More...General Description: A robust, tussock-forming, perennial grass with erect purplish flower stems to 80 cm tall. The leaves are mainly in a dense tuft at the base and are to 20 cm long and blue-green in colour. Flowers and Fruit: Purplish grass flower-head, spikelets 3 to 6-flowered, on short stalks. Flowing is from October to ...
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Podolobium procumbens
Trailing Shaggy-pea
Read More...General Description: A mat-forming, sprawling shrub, to 30 cm tall, with broad leaves and clusters of orange and red pea flowers. Leaves are usually in opposite pairs but sometimes alternate. Flowers and Fruit: Colourful, peachy-orange pea flowers with red near centre, to 14 mm long. Flowering is from November to January. Fruit is a broadly ...
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Ptilotus spathulatus f. spathulatus
Pussy Tails
Read More...General Description: A small, perennial, prostrate herb, to 8 cm tall, with green leaves on creeping stems and large, erect, fluffy, dull yellow flower heads. Leaves are arranged alternately along, creeping stems. Flowers and Fruit: Flowers in soft brownish cylindrical spikes 3 to 7 cm long and 2cm diameter, the spikes are borne erect at ...
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Pultenaea daphnoides
Large-leaf Bush-pea
Read More...General Description: A very attractive shrub, to 3 m tall, with rounded, dark green leaves and clusters of yellow and red pea flowers at the ends of branchlets. The leaves are a glossy dark green and are arranged alternately. Flowers and Fruit: Yellow pea flowers, with dark red centres, to 12 mm wide. Flowers from ...
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Ranunculus lappaceus
Australian Buttercup
Read More...General Description: A herb to 50 cm tall, with broad, deeply divided leaves and large, bright yellow flowers at the ends of slender stems. Leaves: Arranged in a rosette at the base of the plant, broadly triangular, 3-6 cm long, deeply divided into three, toothed leaflets, softly hairy. Flowers and Fruit: Bright yellow, to 15 ...
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Rytidosperma geniculatum
Kneed Wallaby-grass
Read More...General Description: A tufted, narrow-leafed, grey-green, perennial grass with erect flower stems to 25 cm tall with dense clusters of fluffy flowers. Ligule of the leaf has a collar of stiff hairs about 1mm long. Flowers and Fruit: Flower stems have 3 to 7 flowers on short stalks. Seeds are fluffy as is characteristic of ...
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Rytidosperma pallidum
Silvertop Wallaby-grass
Read More...General Description: A perennial grey-green tussock grass with slender leaves, to 1.2 m tall, with a narrow, branched, chaffy flower head, to 35 cm long. Flowers and Fruit: Spikelets with 3-6 flowers and pendant red anthers from November to January. Site Preference and Tolerances: Drought and frost tolerant, prefers full sun and dry to moist ...
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Rytidosperma setaceum and other species
Wallaby-grass mix
Read More...This seed is a mix of Rytidosperma geniculatum, Rytidosperma laeve, Rytidosperma penicillatum, Rytidosperma pilosum and Rytidosperma tenuius.
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Rytidosperma tenuius
Purplish Wallaby-grass
Read More...General Description: A tufted, narrow-leafed, perennial grass with erect flower stem to 80 cm tall with clusters of bristly flowers. Ligule a collar of hairs about 0.5 mm long with marginal tufts to 3 mm long. The leaves form a tussock and are narrow and long, to 50 cm in length. Flowers and Fruit: Flower ...
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Stylidium graminifolium s.l.
Grass Triggerplant
Read More...General Description: A perennial, small tufting plant, to 80 cm tall, with long, narrow, fine grass-like leaves and spikes of bright pink flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Spikes of small pink or white flowers from September to January. Fruit consists of a spike of capsules each containing very fine red seed. Site Preference and Tolerances: Prefers ...
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Themeda triandra
Kangaroo Grass
Read More...General Description: A robust, tufted, perennial grass, to 1 m tall, with a branched flower head, to 25 m long, supports large, chaffy flowers. Flowers and Fruit: Purple/green decorative flower-heads change to glossy brown in summer, flowers from October to March. Noticeable black corkscrew shaped awns attached to the seeds form in each flower-head. With ...
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Xerochrysum viscosum
Shiny Everlasting
Read More...General Desciption: An attractive perennial herb, to 80 cm tall, with narrow leaves along more or less erect stems, and topped by showy bright yellow papery daisy flower-heads. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 5 cm x 5 mm, and are sticky to the touch especially when crushed. Flowers and Fruit: Large papery golden ...
Books
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Plants of Melbourne’s Western Plains
A Gardener's Guide to the Original Flora, 2nd Edition
Price Amount Available 19.95 currently unavailable Read More...“The subordinate title of this book, A gardener’s guide to the original flora’ delightfully understates the scope of this excellent publication … Not only will the gardener be inspired by the choice of plants to grow and the conditions to which they are best suited, but enthusiasts from across the natural history spectrum will learn ...
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Growing Australian Native Plants from Seed
for revegetation, tree planting and direct seeding
Price Amount Available $25 currently unavailable Read More...Murray Ralph Growing Australian Native Plants from Seed is the most comprehensive book available on growing native plants from seed. The practical book includes information on how to germinate seeds, growing seedlings in containers and species suitable for direst seeding. Details are provided on growing over one thousand native plant genera and thousands of individual ...
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Pest Repellent Plants – 2nd Edition
Organic solutions to garden and household pests
Price Amount Available $27.95 5 Read More...Penny Woodward ISBN 9781864471182 PB, full-colour, 160 pp Every gardener knows the havoc insects and other pests can cause in the garden and home. Shop-bought products can control pests but are expensive, wasteful and often highly toxic. By using sprays, oils and powders derived from pest-repellent plants, you can keep garden and household pests at ...