Dicksonia antarctica
Soft Treefern at Coree, ACT
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| Dicksonia antarctica | MichaelMulvaney | 3 Nov 2018 | |
| Dicksonia antarctica | KenT | 28 Oct 2018 |
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Growing on a dry creek bank among blackberries in an area subject to a prescribed burn in the past 12 months
9 comments
29 Oct 2018
Probably D. Antarctica, but I'd need to see more information on the main fronds
4 Nov 2018
Yet there's a Cyathea australis record not too far away. Which is why I was uncertain. A close up of the bases of the fronds will tell the story.
4 Nov 2018
I do hope to make it back into that area by around the end of the month to have a further look at these.
4 Nov 2018
There were C . australis growing in that immediate area back in 1978. Also *well* worth looking for is Todea barbara. There was a nice colony of these growing a bit further up Blue Range Road before they cut down all the Pinus radiata back in the early 1990s. They look like hefty tree ferns, but with primitive looking glossy dark green fronds.
5 Nov 2018
I was noticing the C. australis along the Brown Mountain road up from the Bega Valley this morning, and I strongly suspect this is in fact the same, from the way the dead fronds hang, but it would be good to get a close up of the fronds to confirm. It's good to see multiple C. australis thriving in the Blue Range, though oddly I've not seen them in the Brindabellas or the Tidbinbilla Range. I'd be surprised if they weren't there.
Location information
- Places Coree, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
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- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
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Species information
- Dicksonia antarctica Scientific name
- Soft Treefern Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1477.17m Recorded at altitude
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