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Life in our urban open spaces1 Oct 2026
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MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
40 min ago
Hi Lisa. Can you please correct the location, since it is placed on top of a building?
Solanum cinereum
Mike
wrote:
Yesterday
Chaenomeles are not in ACT Plant Census, but Chaenomeles speciosa is in Advisory List of Alien Plants. I am not sure I agree, but Copilot AI summary:
Practical takeaway for Canberra horticulture
If you’re assessing ornamental quince for planting or weed‑mapping:
Low, suckering, ground‑hugging plants → more likely C. japonica.
Tall, dense, upright shrubs → more likely C. speciosa.
Cultivars in nurseries are often hybrids, so expect intermediates.
Practical takeaway for Canberra horticulture
If you’re assessing ornamental quince for planting or weed‑mapping:
Low, suckering, ground‑hugging plants → more likely C. japonica.
Tall, dense, upright shrubs → more likely C. speciosa.
Cultivars in nurseries are often hybrids, so expect intermediates.
Chaenomeles speciosa
abread111
wrote:
Yesterday
Are they fruits or buds? Have another look when you are in that area... and take close ups.
Unverified Other Shrub
Significant sightings
- Aprasia parapulchella
- Keyacris scurra at Nicholls, ACT
- Phascolarctos cinereus at Theodore, ACT
- Rhaphidophoridae (family) at Mongarlowe, NSW
- Corysanthes grumula
- Callocephalon fimbriatum at Cook, ACT
- Campodeidae (family) at Aranda, ACT
- Araujia sericifera at Red Hill, ACT
- Acrotriche leucocarpa at Cotter River, ACT
- Dasyurus maculatus ssp. maculatus at Clear Range, NSW
- Austrostipa verticillata at Campbell, ACT
- Crowea exalata subsp. exalata at Chisholm, ACT
- Petauroides volans at Uriarra Village, ACT
- Myrmecophilus testaceus at Gundary, NSW
- Gleditsia triacanthos at Curtin, ACT
- Persicaria lapathifolia at Evatt, ACT
- Calotis glandulosa at Anglers Reach, NSW
- Zanda funerea at Deakin, ACT
- Keyacris scurra at Brayton, NSW
- Bothriochloa bladhii at Googong, NSW
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