Botany Nerds Ahoy

Re: fox attack.

Heard an unholy murderous mass chicken slaughter taking place.

Ran out, fox in coop, feathers and blood everywhere.

Fox fled, chickens scattered.

One dead hen in coop.

Managed to round up the others and put then in another coop, put the dead one on some straw in there as well, thinking I would I would bury in paddock at daybreak.

Came back at Dawn and the dead chook was alive- must have been in shock.

Nursed it back to life and now it is a healthy chook.

fwoaar, lucky timing @freeride, whatta jag, glad they survived..
I had a fox here chasing a guinea fowl a few years ago, total sprint race, and i ran at the fox as they passed, and it dug in and snarled hatefully at me for a full 2 seconds for getting in the way..
I could tell it was thinking about pouncing at me, but decided to run off. intense critters.

Not really a botany nerd, but I thought this might be of interest. Some people lined up for four hours to catch a whiff.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-12/corpse-flower-rare-bloom-pungent-...

tip-top1 wrote:

really enjoying the insights in this thread,
keep it going fellas,
wish i had more time , my father has a landscape architect degree and loves native plants.
also my grandfather on my mothers side was an avid gardener. i remember being dragged to the redcliffe horse stables as a kid to shovel horse shit for his veggie patch.
good times

tip-top 1. Hi fella.

Your dad has a landscape architect degree and he loves native plants, well, get him on, let’s talk native plants, local native flora etc.

The more the merrier I say. We all love learning, it’s free and contagious and you become wealthy, of the mind that is. All the best. AW

icandig wrote:

Not really a botany nerd, but I thought this might be of interest. Some people lined up for four hours to catch a whiff.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-12/corpse-flower-rare-bloom-pungent-...

Icandig. Hi , you are, you just don’t know it.

We had our (Geelong Field Naturalist Club) general meeting in our clubrooms in the Geelong Botanic Gardens this evening, a great speaker from Museum of Victoria, a palaeontologist talking about Jan Juc, and Possos fossils as well as the Puebla Formation at Bird Rock, he was outstanding.

At its conclusion a few of us ventured over to see the Amorphophallus , the scent was absent by this time of the night. It’s was packed with people.

The size of the flower is humongous, but it’s not the largest flower in the world.

Rafflesia arnoldii from Sumatra is. A human can stand in the middle of it.

By SofianRafflesia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59608279

I’ve just slid into bed. AW

AlfredWallace][quote=icandig wrote:

Icandig. Hi , you are, you just don’t know it.

I’ve just slid into bed. AW

I identify as Botany curious. Don't really swing one way or the other......That last line though " )

ICD

freeride76 wrote:

Re: fox attack.

Heard an unholy murderous mass chicken slaughter taking place.

Ran out, fox in coop, feathers and blood everywhere.

Fox fled, chickens scattered.

One dead hen in coop.

Managed to round up the others and put then in another coop, put the dead one on some straw in there as well, thinking I would I would bury in paddock at daybreak.

Came back at Dawn and the dead chook was alive- must have been in shock.

Nursed it back to life and now it is a healthy chook.

FR76. Hi mate.
That’s full on.

I’ve got a sensor camera on our chook house, the bloody foxes they prance around the perimeter, clocking up miles turning all the time, obviously salivating as to the contents.
My set up is bullet proof wire on all sides and top and buried below the ground at right angles. ‘ Gallus Palace’ for chooks. AW

seeds wrote:

Aren’t these strange? I gladly plant a couple in my yard if they could handle the conditions here.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/the-extremely-rare-tree-aussies-should-plant-i...

Seeds . Hi mate.

Beautiful small mallee Eucalyptus.

Attempting to grow a plant like that out of WA is fraught with danger.

Fitzgerald River National Park is a must visit for anyone interested in the Kwongan Flora complex, , the level of endemism is approximately 75% compared to QLD Wet Tropics 25%

My opinion would be it’s way too humid where you live. AW

Here’s one for you AW. Despite the name it’s surprisingly hardy, even survives my gardening attempts! This one had a day moth visitor grabbing some refreshments.

Distracted wrote:

Here’s one for you AW. Despite the name it’s surprisingly hardy, even survives my gardening attempts! This one had a day moth visitor grabbing some refreshments.

Distracted . Hi mate. Hope you’re well.

My guess is Darling Lily. Crinum flaccidum. AW

Nice guess AW, you must have come across the Darling Lily on your trips inland? However, this is actually a Swamp Lily, crinium pendunculatum.
Looks very similar, interesting where evolution has taken this genus across Oz!

Lots of swamp lilies in flower around here.

Seen them in brackish environments on river banks- they must have some salt tolerance.