Need ID to proceed with conditional house offer
Public help sought for this shrub; several found growing on the edge of some mixed broadleaf bush.
On Madagascar Ragwort (Senecio madagascariensis) – see this observation (identification to be confirmed) https://inaturalist.nz/observations/194177267
Growing on disturbed soil.
Known population and a recent excursion for New Zealand. Most sprayed but a large patch still present amongst rank kikuyu.
Growing in sand dune and also in sand further inland
Found under large conifer in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, alongside the Archery Lawn.
Is 180 mm long and 10 mm diameter on the main shaft.
See http://bamboo-identification.co.uk/html/tumidissinoda.html
In Queenstown Gardens.
I have not seen this species in New Zealand before (though I know it well from Sardegna where it is very common). Uncommon, growing in rough pasture near Te Mata Peak trig station
City campus of the University of Auckland, Auckland CBD.
Impressive flowering nightshade just at the start of the Frasers Gully walk.
This should be Chascolytrum rufum J.Presl (see http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.aspx?ID=3530 and http://nzflora.landcareresearch.co.nz/default.aspx?selected=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=0C82A0D9-1C78-4218-8C84-B805AC223F9F)
This is an uncommon naturalised grass of inner Auckland (mostly found along Symond Street, within the University of Auckland campus grounds), Grafton Cemetery, and on the western side of Grafton Gully, Auckland Domain. Images show a plant admixed with an iridaceous plant growing in a street planting of Phormium cookianum subsp. hookeri (see http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/2398982).
Voucher collected and lodged in the Auckland Museum Herbarium (PdL 12879 AK 359754)
Exotic grass, similar in size to bush rice grass. Very hairy stems and leaves.
Found in a barley field, could be a tree seedling?
Dense growth in scrub land in Waipoua forest. Couldn't tell which plants were the host but it was growing with dracophyllum, manuka and mingimingi
Photo by Maxine Donovan - unsure what this is but no other photo taken.
Growing in degraded wetland/wet seep.
On recently dumped heap of soil.
Weed in planter pots in nursery grounds. Plants appeared in coconut fiber used for plant potting mix. Coconut fiber is imported by New Zealand from overseas as an alternative to using peat and it is 'certified' as a safe, sustainable, 'sterile, weed / disease' free potting medium. However over the last summer 16 different tropical weed species have been found germinating from this 'sterile' potting mix at this nursery - much to the nursery owner's horror.
In this case the nursery owner has taken sensible precautions and has quarantined any seedlings germinating from the coconut fiber, had them identified and then destroyed.
However, their attempts to raise the matter with the relevant New Zealand Government Agencies have been ignored.
Currently this species of grass is not known to occur in New Zealand. Clearly its now here and the worry is that whilst this nursery has destroyed all plants they found have other nurseries using 'sterile' coconut fiber done the same?
Identification confirmed by K. Ford of Landcare Research (9 June 2016). Voucher lodged in CHR (G.R. Davidson & P.J. de Lange 13141)
On eroding foredune
I want to say P. japonica but I don't think it quite meets the description, not a bamboo expert by any stretch however!. Cool to see flowers though
Spreading by rhizomes into the walkway, from possible planted specimen in adjoining garden. Mature stems somewhat squared. Why does iNaturalist call this 'marble bamboo' - it's not marbled, but C. marmorea is!
building bamboo spreading quickly from neighbouring property and taking over the park area!
Large thicket, probably here since 1970s. Foliage, young culm, mature culm with multi-branches.
Extensively suckering from stream and up hillslope, patch 30 x 50 m or more. A very invasive bamboo. Recorded as adventive in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338091882_Additional_records_and_observations_of_monocotyledons_naturalised_or_casual_in_Manawatu_Ecological_Region_New_Zealand_1980-2019
Seedlings from planted parent plant which died after flowering. Recorded as adventive in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338091882_Additional_records_and_observations_of_monocotyledons_naturalised_or_casual_in_Manawatu_Ecological_Region_New_Zealand_1980-2019
Large bamboo growing in this area - over 6m tall. ID from a previous obs
clumping bamboo that does not send out runners. Does not have a groove running up the cane.
In 1971, the NZ Forest Service (Otautau branch) planted nine species of bamboo in the arboretum but there are no markers to identify them. These are the varieties planted:
All may not have survived. Some are invasive and may have spread; others are clumping and should still be in one spot. It is hoped we can identify which is which as time goes on with the help of looking at others' observations of the same plants here on iNat.
had a better look at the culms and sheaths this time, matches description from NZPCN
This is a native endemic plant on Isla Juan Fernandez (Robinson Crusoe Island) off the coast of Chile. The images show a male and female Juan Fernandez Firecrown feeding on this endemic plant. An iNat entry on the hummingbirds is at:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152136
These images are from scanned slides.
Point Chevalier/Waterview, Auckland. Common in mulched areas along cycleway (on the Waterview side of the motorway only).
Minutely scabrid sheath margins, denticulate ligule.
Same one we saw in Papamoa. Farmer says 3y ago there was a flooding, plus this year weed ctrl wasn't so great
a weird coloured one growing in a drain
loads and loads of wild seedlings spreading from a big planted adult with "dandelion" type seeds this will spread far and wide damn it. looks like it will be a bad dune weed.
A singlerather decumbent small shrub growing in the gravel beside the road. Very well rooted. There appeared to be S. nigrum and S. chenopodioides growing nearby.My id is based on the following quote from the recent Phytokeys paper A revision of the Old World Black Nightshades (Morelloid clade of Solanum L., Solanaceae) by Sarkinen et alia
"Solanum furcatum can be distinguished from all other Old World species based on its branched inflorescences, anthers 2.3–3.3 mm long and flowers where styles are exserted up to 3.0 mm beyond anthers."
Not all of thje inflorescences are furcate so I will lodge a specimen in a herbarium and see what they make of it.
several fruit on potato vine. I've never seen fruit before (i never looked close tho) but I assumed the flowers never pollinated or that they aborted or something.
this is the weird island mallow x tree mallow that pat found. plz dont ID it until there is a hybrid taxon made. last pic shows pure island mallow flower compared to this hybrid