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Streak Haworthia (Haworthia cymbiformis)Observer
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Pot rescued from abandoned garden & nursery in 2021.Perhaps H. retusa - fine teeth on leaf margins.
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Prickly Moses (Acacia verticillata)Observer
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Remnant shrubs in old fence-line - remains of old hedgerow? No seedlings seen so assumed to have been planted a long time ago.
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Algerian Iris (Iris unguicularis)Observer
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Its first flowering for this year - flowers each winter here.
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Tropical Woodsorrel (Oxalis hirta)Observer
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Rescued and grown on, in a pot, from old nursery/garden where it was naturalised in a limestone block rockery.
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Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor)Observer
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Doubtful ID - a fallen dried twig below potential source tree, karri. But other Eucs in same grove. @dnicolle please
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Flax-leaved Horseweed (Erigeron bonariensis)Observer
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The site has been cleared since these photos and replaced with a department store. The last 2 pics show the site as it was - the last having just Erigeron sumatrensis 'in shot'. However, looking at that last photo - enlarged - again I wonder whether the plants with whiter heads might have been Erigeron (Conyza) bonariensis too.
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Crowded Haworthia (Haworthiopsis coarctata)Observer
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Not sure about this name. Rescued pot from old nursery/garden, now destroyed and being turned into new housing.
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Speckled Spur-Flower (Plectranthus ciliatus)Observer
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Large dense patch under trees on street border.
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Pōhutukawa / Southern Rātā Hybrid (Metrosideros excelsa × umbellata)Observer
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Two slender shrubs planted in lawn. PIcs #2 & 3 show upper and lower leaf surfaces, respectively. All 3 pics are of the same shrub
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Scrub Cherry (Syzygium australe)Observer
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Hedge between the reserve and private home. Young stems with 'pockets' above the nodes . No sign of myrtle rust.
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Genus TischeriaObserver
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A leaf miner of oak (Quercus); PIcs #1 and 2 are upper and under sides of the same leaf; acorns of the tree as Pic #5
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Strawberry Dogwood (Cornus capitata)Observer
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Tree overhanging fence into the reserve; naturalised seedlings locally abundant along fenceline. Parent tree assumed to have been planted.
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New Zealand Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis)Observer
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Self-established tree - first fruiting
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Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)Observer
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Self-sown seedlings around the plant in https://inaturalist.nz/observations/67037110
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Dyckia distachyaObserver
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Same plant as https://inaturalist.nz/observations/108012630 with flowers not fully opened here. Large spiny-leaved clump (now destroyed when this nursery was bulldozed for housing late 2023-early 2024
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Purpletop (Verbena bonariensis)Observer
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Apparently planted @marleyi Looks a bit like V. incompta, but more showy?
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Australian Fan Palm (Livistona australis)Observer
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Self-established seedlings in 2nd picture.
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Beetle Lily (Baeometra uniflora)Observer
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Pot rescued from abandoned nursery/garden. When this came up, it was unknown until it flowered 4 weeks later https://inaturalist.nz/observations/97098810