Nymphaea mexicana

Mexican or Banana Waterlily at Kingston, ACT

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Identification history

Nymphaea mexicana	13 May 2015	RWPurdie
Nymphaea mexicana (Mexican Water Lily)	12 May 2015	JoshMulvaney
Nymphaea mexicana	12 May 2015	JoshMulvaney

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Significant sighting

MichaelMulvaney noted:

15 May 2015

A significant weed, difficult to control, known from Jerrabomberra Wetlands and the round-about ponds near Commonwealth Park. One to key an eye out for. Distinguished by floating broad elliptic leaves with blade to 25 cm long, young leaves often with brown markings; leaf stalks arising from vertical rhizomes to 30 cm long and 4 cm thick; long spongy stolons also produced at the top of the rhizome; flowers yellow.

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Jerrabomberra Creek

14 comments

RWPurdie wrote:

13 May 2015

This is definitely Nymphaea mexicana. There is a herbarium specimen of it collected on 14 Feb 2014, and photos of its flowers in the Australian Plant Image Index (e.g. see http://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/apii/id/dig/25193)

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

14 May 2015

Josh your location is off for this one I can fix it if you send me a map

JoshMulvaney wrote:

14 May 2015

Yeah I noticed that when I put it up. I have tried to enter eastings/northings in manual override, but doesn't seem to work. Happy for someone else to try. This patch was at 6955487 / 6090170.

JoshMulvaney wrote:

14 May 2015

Ah - now I see only moderators can edit coordinates. Thanks for the help

BettyDonWood wrote:

15 May 2015

There is an easy tool that converts eastings and northings to lat/longs. http://www.binaryearth.net/AusDatumTool/index.php It is also available as an Andoid app. http://www.appszoom.com/android_applications/tools/australian-datum-tool_byaog.html

AaronClausen wrote:

15 May 2015

Guys - you can enter Eastings/Northings or Lat/Long directly into the CNM Report Form (if you are a moderator or we setup the privileges for you). No need for external conversion. Josh one sec...

AaronClausen wrote:

15 May 2015

Oh you've already got it. Cool :)

JoshMulvaney wrote:

19 May 2015

Thanks Aaron. There may be a problem with the Eastings/Northings input field - I tried a couple of times, but I could only get it to work when I manually moved the pin on the map.

AaronClausen wrote:

20 May 2015

Hi Josh - thanks for letting me know. Can I bug you to email me the numbers you were trying to get the form to accept? I'll do some testing and try to reproduce and resolve etc. Cheers Aaron.

JoshMulvaney wrote:

20 May 2015

No worries. I was trying with Eastings/Northings which were: 6955487 / 6090170. Thanks Aaron.

AaronClausen wrote:

24 May 2015

Hi Josh - cool. Thanks for these. I took a quick look, the first number looks 1 digit too long. It should be more like this: 685725 i.e. 6 digits not 7. Let me know if that fixes it, or I can do some more testing if that doesn't fix it.. Cheers Aaron.

JoshMulvaney wrote:

27 May 2015

Ah - yep my mistake. I missed a decimal in there. I moved the point away from its true location then tried to use the Eastings / Northings to correct it. I tried it as 695548 / 6090170 as well as 0695549 / 6090170 but neither seemed to work. Sorry Aaron.

AaronClausen wrote:

27 May 2015

Hmm so 695548 / 6090170 didn't work? Let me do some more testing Josh, there could be a bug... Cheers Aaron.

JoshMulvaney wrote:

27 May 2015

No worries. I can send you my login details so that you can view from my end if you want.

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