1 Large Duck Orchid at Tura Beach, NSW
Identification history
| Caleana major | 2 Nov 2018 | isopogon |
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I and my neighbour (Dr. Janet Wollaston) visited the patch of large duck orchids just down the track where we live.
The duck orchids were still flowering and we found another 'patch' of orchids (in flower) west of the patch I reported (and photographed) on 26 October.
The two 'patches' of duck orchids were on the south side of the 'firebreak' between the BVSC 300 metre wide buffer strip (burnt in a çontrol burn' about 4 months ago) and the south boundary of Bournda NP. They may have been the result of the fact that the adjacent bush was recently burnt.
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JackieMiles
wrote:
3 Nov 2018
Yeah, Max and I went for a walk in there 2 or 3 weeks ago and saw a couple of flying ducks, but they were growing in an unburnt bit of "median strip" in the track, not in the burnt area. There was nothing much coming back in the burnt area except bracken at that time. But its also possible that smoke from the fire has encouraged the orchids to come up near the burn, rather than in it. I'm assuming this is where yours are, since you say south of the firebreak.
Location information
- Places Tura Beach, NSW
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 1 Nov 2018 07:07 AM Recorded on
- isopogon Recorded by
Additional information
- True In flower
- 12 mm Flower dimension
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
Species information
- Caleana major Scientific name
- Large Duck Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- 150 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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