Monday, 29 July 2024

What's likely to flower?

In late June 2024 I created a google sheet for the period June - August listing the plants recorded for the extended Mallacoota District in iNaturalist.  As the month of July passed I added to that any additional plants we caw in flower (and were able to identify.  

We ended with 28 species for July, which is not bad for mid-Winter, and probably helped by the relatively minimum temperatures experienced this month.  On confirming the ID of Pandorea pandorana (Wonga Vine) a local expert commented that it was "pretty early".

I have now compiled a similar sheet for July - September which should cover the plants likely to be flowering in August.  It was notable that the list of additions for September was quite extensive: Spring springs in that month!  At this stage there are 23 species list for August per se but 103 species for the entire 3 month period.

The plants are sorted in two ways:

  1. the first sheet has them sorted by month of expected occurrence with August first, then July and September last (then by Family);
  2. the second sheet is by species name order, but with the known August species highlighted in yellow.
As for July, I will adjust the lists as we add to them set of identified species.


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