Cassinia sifton

Sifton Bush, Chinese Shrub at Watson, ACT

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Identification history

	Cassinia sifton	1 Sep 2022	MichaelMulvaney
	Cassinia sifton	31 Aug 2022	MPW

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Erect shrub, almost covered in 1000's of (old) tiny flowers, small elongate "Conifer like" leaves. Only 3 plants along this Track location, that I could see. Suspect it's not a local species ? Wind dispersed tiny seeds.

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waltraud wrote:

1 Sep 2022

It is local (Mts Majura/Ainslie) Max. The species wasn't visible during 2000-2010 drought and heavy rabbit grazing (rabbits love young Cassinia). I noticed the first Sifton bush plants around 2013 growing in the paddock; over the past years more started to grow for instance along the transmissions powerline easement. Farmers don't like them as they can become "weedy".

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Location information

Coordinates 149.175833 -35.236389
Places Watson, ACT

Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
27 Aug 2022 05:02 PM Recorded on
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Additional information

Very tiny florets, a few mm Flower dimension
1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
True In flower

Species information

Cassinia sifton Scientific name
Sifton Bush, Chinese Shrub Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 864m Recorded at altitude
280 images trained Machine learning
In flower
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