Native Plants Queensland Blog
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Our blog is A great place to start learning about native plants, fauna & the environment. Native Plants Queensland has enthusiastic members who cultivate, conserve and study our native plants.
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
A vigorous vine of rainforests, the Zig Zag Vine is so named because of the slight bends in the branchlets, showing a distinctly zig-zag growth habit especially in new or young growth. It also is referred to occasionally as Knot Vine because of its tendency to wind around ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
It’s not the most exciting vine you’ll ever see. Mine is a female and bears inconspicuous clusters of small white flowers in spring-summer. However, she does have clusters of brightly coloured red and orange fruit, and peltate, almost heart-shaped, vibrant green leaves. And she certainly ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
Ok I’m just going to throw it out there and confess “I love lomandra”. From their bold strapping leaves to their upright tufted habit and sweet-scented flowers, these plants make my blood rush to the point where my partner now cringes when asking “what should we plant here” … but seriously folks… let’s look at lomandra ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
Our look alike cousins, the bee flies (Bombyliidae), have large, stout and hairy bodies allowing them to easily mimic wasps or bees. Many beeflies are out and about early in the season and in cold weather they are key pollinators of many spring wildflowers. Some are highly specialised feeders having ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
This updated edition incorporates the latest information and changes in the International Code of Nomenclature (ICN) that guides botanists, horticulturists and publishers on accepted technical information such as plant names, naming procedures, cultivar ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
On 4 June 2021, 26 people from SGAP embarked on a five-day excursion to Hopevale, north of Cooktown, the Battle Camp Road and the Laura area. Our Tablelands Branch was pleased to have four members from the Cairns Branch and one member from the Innisfail Branch ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
The rains had been and gone, and the countryside touched by these rains was ablaze with flowers, especially with a diverse range of little herbaceous species amongst the native grasses. So it was time in early 2021 to go west with the Green Phantom and explore another small remnant of vegetation that ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
The Latin of the Ancient Romans is a ‘dead’ language. That is, it is no longer used by any society in the world for day-to-day use. Therefore, the meaning of words remains static. Also, Latin was the written word of the monasteries where in the Middle Ages most knowledge was held by ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
On the 15th of March, 2020, the Native Plant Society visited the Townsville James Cook University (JCU) campus to tour the greenhouses, glasshouses and some of their higher profile landscaping to see how they are utilising our native ..read more
Native Plants Queensland Blog
1y ago
We all watched in horror last November as wildfires devastated eastern Australia. Quite apart from the human cost, the fires wiped out 3.8 million hectares of mostly temperate forest and an estimated billion native animals. Fire sensitive and rarely-burned Gondwanan rainforests were significantly impacted – some for the ..read more