Enchylaena tomentosa

3 Ruby Saltbush at Mount Painter

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Identification history

Enchylaena tomentosa	15 Apr 2024	Tapirlord
Enchylaena tomentosa	13 Apr 2024	abread111
Unidentified	10 Apr 2024	SarahHnatiuk

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Hard to see how many, one big mat of plant

8 comments

JT1997 wrote:

11 Apr 2024

Enchylaena tomentosa. Sadly not in the CNM plant list.

abread111 wrote:

11 Apr 2024

I suppose someone (one of the plant moderators) will put it on for you, Sarah. Well spotted! Its not on the ACT Census so get a sample of it and press it for the National Herbarium.

abread111 wrote:

13 Apr 2024

I found it on the global species list for other shrubs.

Tapirlord wrote:

15 Apr 2024

Not local to our area, so I imagine a planting. Not sure this would be suitable for a herbarium specimen.

abread111 wrote:

15 Apr 2024

Do you think this has been planted, Sarah? It is species which is available to gardeners. Several subspecies occur widely everywhere else except around here, according to ALA.

JT1997 wrote:

15 Apr 2024

Highly likely that this is a planting, or, slightly less likely, a naturalized, self-seeded etc. individual from a number of possible sources.

SarahHnatiuk wrote:

15 Apr 2024

The plant is growing on a rather rocky patch of ground beneath Tasmanian Blue Gums along the easement behind the houses on the boundary of Cook. The location is 1-2m from a dirt road used by vehicles, a cavaletti and a path used by walkers. I can't imagine anyone planting it there; no one plants anything anywhere else along this easement. I imagine it has grown from seed dropped by a bird (or a horse?)

abread111 wrote:

15 Apr 2024

Thanks, Sarah, I think a sample of it should go to the Herbarium.

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