Pteridium esculentum
Bracken at Undefined Area
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| Pteridium esculentum | dcnicholls | 20 Apr 2016 | |
| Unverified | AaronClausen | 20 Apr 2016 |
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A new patch of bracken fern that I never knew existed in a dried up gully on the West facing side of the mountain just up from North Watson.
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21 Apr 2016
I'm just realising Waltraud that this is the first location for bracken fern that I know of on the mountain. Do you know any other spots?
21 Apr 2016
Aaron that is about the site where I found Bracken fern (before CNM); Isobel Crawford confirmed my Id. I'm not aware of any other site.
Cheers
w
Cheers
w
21 Apr 2016
Ok great to know Waltraud, thanks for confirming. It's our sacred bracken patch.
21 Apr 2016
I was puzzled when I found it (during rabbit mapping) I searched carefully in the surround, but it seems just this isolated spot.
21 Apr 2016
Yeah it's a really weird little patch just kind of on it's own and then impossible to spot anywhere else. I'm kinda happy about this because I thought the only other spot around here was the quarry at Mt Ainslie. I feel like going up there and turning it into a little fernery and installing sprinklers to keep it all moist so they multiply!
21 Apr 2016
There is (or used to be) some bracken growing on the lower SW slopes of Black Mountain. It tends to grow where the soil is deeper.
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- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 20 Apr 2016 01:42 PM Recorded on
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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- AaronClausen NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Pteridium esculentum Ferns and Clubmosses Plants
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- Pteridium esculentum Scientific name
- Bracken Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Medium weed or pest
- Up to 1338.58m Recorded at altitude
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