I heart WOTD

Stand corrected.

In all seriousness though everyone picks up on clues on where a surf photo is likely to be, based on all kinds of aspects and vegetation is a big one when included, even clueless dumb arses city slickers like Guy even if they dont know it do it to some extent, im sure even he knows a pic peering through coconut palms isnt going to somewhere down south.

Ha ha

No way that's banksia integrifolia. Craig's trying to throw you all off the scent.

I’m also questioning Craig’s expertise here, I’ve zoomed right in and that doesn’t look like the knobby bark of the coastal banksia!!

Branches definitely look like a banksia to me.

indo-dreaming wrote:

GuySmiley wrote:

indo-dreaming wrote:

Cool pic and set up.

BTW. the clue to where this is, is in those little green tuffy plants.

Yes what a wave, you surfed it much @info?

Despite having a bro inlay from there ive never been there but as an X landscape gardener i have a decent knowledge of plants so even at distance i can tell where it is by vegetation type, well not exact location or even area but place, as has quite unique native plants.

Its funny how as surfers we can automatically also know where a wave roughly is by all the other aspects like water colours, rocks, landscape and just the lighting etc

IndoDreaming. Simply cant believe you and i worked in the same field. 32 years as a landscaper for me.

Just for fun. Would you like to have a plant identification competition?
You post a photo, i post a photo.

In what areas of Australia or any other part of the world would you like to start ?

No cheating by using iNaturalist or any of those shit Plant Id Apps which are very inaccurate.

I just need to know how to upload photos. Any help ? Thanks. AW.

ImgBB Alfred. Upload and copy the share code for a html image. Easy

blackers wrote:

ImgBB Alfred. Upload and copy the share code for a html image. Easy

Blackers. Thank you, see how i go. AW

Sounds fun AW.

I'm more familiar with coastal landscapes (better at zoology than botany) but wherever you like would be fun.

I’ll play. I’ll go first.

Boobialla?

sure looks like coastal boobialla to me.

Don't know much about botany or zoology, but I reckon that's a Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae standing on the beach.

Makes me snigger just a little too.

Alyxia Buxifolia - sea box

Okay, my turn. Not local to my neck of the woods.

Some type of Callistemon? Or grevillea

Gday blackers, Calothamnus quadrifidus or the common net bush from the SW of WA but I’ll await your (and @info’s) adjudication.

Taken in March this year

GuySmiley wrote:

Gday blackers, Calothamnus quadrifidus or the common net bush from the SW of WA but I’ll await your (and @info’s) adjudication.

Well picked Guy. Nice shot of yours. The pink and the crazy shape had me thinking Sydney Red Gum (Angophora costata) but I'm not confident.

goofyfoot wrote:

I’ll play. I’ll go first.

Alyxia buxifolia. Seabox

A clue, above the snow line in Tasmania

blackers wrote:

Okay, my turn. Not local to my neck of the woods.

Definitely Calothamnus quadrifidus

GuySmiley wrote:

A clue, above the snow line in Tasmania

Leucopogon sp. ?

My first thought was Sydney Red gum as well but with the clue, Tasmanian snow gum?

Yes a snow gum in Mt Field NP

Was surprised how much I liked this tree when I first saw it.

Lovely photo of the snow gum, very unique, picked that one straight away.

And it's def a Banksia in mine, could provide supporting evidence but it'd give away a bit more of the location ;p

Wow, some kind of flesh paper bark there seeds, interesting.

AlfredWallace wrote:

indo-dreaming wrote:

GuySmiley wrote:

indo-dreaming wrote:

Cool pic and set up.

BTW. the clue to where this is, is in those little green tuffy plants.

Yes what a wave, you surfed it much @info?

Despite having a bro inlay from there ive never been there but as an X landscape gardener i have a decent knowledge of plants so even at distance i can tell where it is by vegetation type, well not exact location or even area but place, as has quite unique native plants.

Its funny how as surfers we can automatically also know where a wave roughly is by all the other aspects like water colours, rocks, landscape and just the lighting etc

IndoDreaming. Simply cant believe you and i worked in the same field. 32 years as a landscaper for me.

Just for fun. Would you like to have a plant identification competition?
You post a photo, i post a photo.

In what areas of Australia or any other part of the world would you like to start ?

No cheating by using iNaturalist or any of those shit Plant Id Apps which are very inaccurate.

I just need to know how to upload photos. Any help ? Thanks. AW.

My knowledge is more in specialised type areas like palms and tropical landscaping type plants (or even tropical looking) but im pretty much close to useless when it comes to large tree's & shrubs or just natives in general.

I only worked in the area for about half a dozen years including nursery work and that was almost 20 years ago, but i was pretty obsessed with rare palms and tropical style gardening and still a keen gardener.

If it is limited to tropical or tropical look plants and palms i will kill it, but native's like above i have barely more knowledge than anyone else. (although banksia integrifolia would have been my pick for Craig's pic, but im a little bit better with coastal natives)

If you post a pic of a tropical or tropical look garden with various plants i should be able to pick most plants out in the photo with latin names (although have too google for spelling) and where they are native too etc.

Okay heres a distinctive palm and one the odd poster might know if have been to this country, pic is in natural habitat.

seeds wrote:

Was surprised how much I liked this tree when I first saw it.

Don’t think it’s a paperbark, thinking more like a desert gum or mulga of some sort probably in the Red Centre, A clue?

Today’s is epic btw

Looks like an inland watercourse. Some kind of eucalyptus in the background.
Thats all I got.

Red mulga. Acacia Cyperophylla. They grow along usually dry water courses in arid areas. It was sort of a grove of them. I had to stop and have a look. Amazing bark!
Somewhere between Dalhousie Springs and Mt Dare in NE South Australia.

Awesome seeds!

Seawinds gardens on Arthurs Seat on a morning run. Notice the little guy behind it.

seeds wrote:

Red mulga. Acacia Cyperophylla. They grow along usually dry water courses in arid areas. It was sort of a grove of them. I had to stop and have a look. Amazing bark!
Somewhere between Dalhousie Springs and Mt Dare in NE South Australia.

Harsh country up there @seeds, been the once a long time ago, reckon that mulga wood would be harder than iron, thanks

Grevillea Poorinda hybrid of some type GF? Skippy looks cold!

Grevillea of some kind guy. I’m not sure. It’s the only one I’ve seen up there too.

It was a fresh morning, he would of been.

Beautiful little flowers, GF.

Looks a bit like Rosemary Grevillea

That was my first thought SD, but not indigenous, escaped garden variety? Back to the thread, lovely WOTD today.

goofyfoot wrote:

Seawinds gardens on Arthurs Seat on a morning run. Notice the little guy behind it.

Grevillea rosmarinifolia

As a graduate of the then Burnley Horticultural College (now part of Melbourne Uni) I was taught how to systematically identify plants primarily, but not exclusively, by their foliage. Length, shape, serration, veins, adult/juvenile, colour of the leaves were all primary characteristics that needed assessment. Next came assessment of growth habit, the existence and size of any seed pods and flowers. These characteristics were secondary because they may change depending on location. This all predated the existence of PCs and smartphones and the wholesale recategorisation of many Australian native species in the mid/late 90s e.g. possibly 1/3,of Eucalyptus to Angophora. Funny, the Sydney red gum discussed above is actually an Angophora!

What will tomorrow’s wotd bring us?

GuySmiley wrote:

As a graduate of the then Burnley Horticultural College (now part of Melbourne Uni) I was taught how to systematically identify plants primarily, but not exclusively, by their foliage. Length, shape, serration, veins, adult/juvenile, colour of the leaves were all primary characteristics that needed assessment. Next came assessment of growth habit, the existence and size of any seed pods and flowers. These characteristics were secondary because they may change depending on location. This all predated the existence of PCs and smartphones and the wholesale recategorisation of many Australian native species in the mid/late 90s e.g. possibly 1/3,of Eucalyptus to Angophora. Funny, the Sydney red gum discussed above is actually an Angophora!

What will tomorrow’s wotd bring us?

GuySmiley. We attended the same institution, i even taught there some years later.AW

Very fond memories of those times and the college AW, great place

tubeshooter wrote:

Don't know much about botany or zoology, but I reckon that's a Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae standing on the beach.

Silver Gull no doubt AW

freeride76 wrote:

sure looks like coastal boobialla to me.

Boobialla has a different floral arrangement.AW

To be fair Alfred, it wasn't the clearest of photos. Here's one you should know

That be some sort of hakea.

ha ha todays caption :P