Nymphaea mexicana
Mexican or Banana Waterlily at Kingston, ACT
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| Nymphaea mexicana | RWPurdie | 13 May 2015 | |
| Nymphaea mexicana (Mexican Water Lily) | JoshMulvaney | 12 May 2015 | |
| Nymphaea mexicana | JoshMulvaney | 12 May 2015 |
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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.
User's notes
Jerrabomberra Creek
14 comments
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)
14 May 2015
Josh your location is off for this one I can fix it if you send me a map
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
20 May 2015
No worries. I was trying with Eastings/Northings which were: 6955487 / 6090170. Thanks Aaron.
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.
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.
27 May 2015
Hmm so 695548 / 6090170 didn't work? Let me do some more testing Josh, there could be a bug... Cheers Aaron.
27 May 2015
No worries. I can send you my login details so that you can view from my end if you want.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.151297-35.312551
- Altitude 591.9m
- Maps Jerrabomberra Wetlands
- Places Kingston, ACT
Sighting information
- 1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
- 29 Apr 2015 12:16 PM Recorded on
- JoshMulvaney Recorded by
Collections
- Significant Plants Other Fresh Water Plants JoshMulvaney Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Nymphaea mexicana
Species information
- Nymphaea mexicana Scientific name
- Mexican or Banana Waterlily Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Major weed or pest
- 591.85m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
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4 / 7
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