Welcome to the Not-weeds Page 2¶

Introduction¶

I participate in dune and bushcare restoration activities, covering areas from Stumers Creek north of Coolum Beach south to Twin Waters/North Shore on the Maroochy River.

I have a blog page that shows records of weeds seen, being scans of a weeding log-book I (briefly) maintained for a while.

Then I realized that while I was concentrating on learning the scientific species names of the weeds I saw, I had been ignoring the Australian native plants. So I set myself the goal of learning one Latin scientific name a week, documentating with photos taken during my weeding stints. Caution: assigment on names of the species is my own, guided by the Council specialists, and iNaturalist.

The previous page covering some of the native plants is https://coolum001.github.io/notweeds.html

Corkwood (Duboisia myoporoides)¶

The photos below were taken of a single young tree on the sea-facing high dune on my patch. I was originally surprised to identify it, as some books say it is a rainforest margins species. However I later found a more mature speciman growing a bit further south (but still in Coolum), so I guess it gets enough rainfall to be happy.

Images¶

Flowers¶

Closeup of flowers.

More flowers and foliage¶

Flowers and foliage.

Distinctive trunk¶

The mature tree has even deeper grooves in the bark

Horsetail She-oak (Casuarina equisetifolia)¶

Thriving on the fore-dune, I think that at least some of these she-oaks were originally planted as part of a regeneration effort. Quite a few small she-oaks are coming up, so the effort was successful.

Images¶

Barrier planting¶

The she-oaks filter out the salt spray to protect inland species. Licking the leaves give a very salty taste!

Foliage¶

The foliage with a scale card

Pigweed (Carpobrotus glaucescens)¶

Where I gew up, pigweed was the name associated with this species.

The name Carpobrotus indicates that this plant is edible, but I have never been brave enough to try.

Images¶

Loose dune stabilisation¶

Pigweed seems to thrive just behind the sea berm, and on the sea facing fore-dune.

Macaranga tanarius¶

This is a very vigorous pioneer species

I have a number of these growing in my home garden: very easy to grow from seed, very tolerant of pruning, quick growing shade or privacy screen trees

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Distinctive foliage¶

Heart shaped leaves on a small sapling

Pioneer¶

Some Macarangas saplings establishing themselves in a cleared area (I think some old she-oaks were blown down in a storm). They are clear of the Wollastonia Biflora, so I expect they will do well.

More to come!¶

I will continue to update this web page, as I learn the names of more native vegetation species