Bracken at Majura, ACT
Identification history
| Pteridium esculentum | 20 Apr 2016 | dcnicholls | ||
| Unidentified | 20 Apr 2016 | AaronClausen |
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User's notes
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.
6 comments
AaronClausen
wrote:
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?
waltraud
wrote:
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
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Cheers
w
AaronClausen
wrote:
21 Apr 2016
Ok great to know Waltraud, thanks for confirming. It's our sacred bracken patch.
waltraud
wrote:
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.
AaronClausen
wrote:
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!
dcnicholls
wrote:
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.175100-35.231050
- Altitude 676.9m
- Places Majura, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 20 Apr 2016 01:42 PM Recorded on
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Ferns and Clubmosses AaronClausen
Species information
- Pteridium esculentum Scientific name
- Bracken Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Medium weed or pest
- Up to 1295.04m Recorded at altitude
- 154 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
- External link More information
