Linda and Roger's Bunhybee Grasslands

Visit by FOG and Friends – 9 May 2009

This is a page within Roger and Linda's Bunhybee Grasslands Web-Site.

Bunhybee Grasslands is a 49 hectare / 120 acre conservation property 35km south of Braidwood, in southern N.S.W.

You can follow through the internal links, or you may find it easier to use the Site-Map.

The Friends of Grasslands (FOG) visited Bunhybee on a couple of occasions in 2007-08. But this was the first opportunity for the new owners to get the direct benefit of knowledgeable people moving slowly across Bunhybee Grasslands, ooh-ing and aah-ing at species of flora, and engaging in duels in obscure Latin. (Linnaeus has a lot to answer for).

The 12 FOG members were led by President Geoff Robertson (the 'big picture' grasslands person) and Committee member Margaret Ning (the species whizz). We again had the assistance of Mary Appleby from DECC, Braidwood (who not only provided lots of advice, but tea, coffee and quiche as well!).

The party of 16 also included Nature Conservation Trust Director, Brian Binning, and his wife Anna, from Yass Valley, and Harry and Kitty Tischler from neighbouring Warragandra. Libby Keen is both a FOG member and a neighbour, from Harold's Cross, 10km north.

Based on the planned itineraries around the property, the party did the following:

• 10-11 am – coffee, cake, introductions to the property
• 11am -1 pm – the small rocky water-line above the gate, the small dam and Echidna ridge
• 2-5 pm – past the copse to the main water-line, the main dam, and the area below it, with the remnants of the group carrying on to Peppermint corner and back along the forest fence-line

All plant identification carries with it moderate degrees of uncertainty, and the species-lists are subject to continual review and revision. With those qualifications:

• the party identified 102 natives and 15 introduced species
• Linda took photos of 53 species (27 flowering plants, 16 grasses, 10 trees and shrubs)
• this resulted in:
  • an increase of 15-17 native species identified on the property (now 196)
  • an increase of 27 local species-photos (now 111)

In greater detail:

• Trees:
  • 2 additional trees (E. dalrympleana, E. ovata), taking the total to 9 species (7 E. and 2 others, Allocasuarina distyla and Exocarpus cupressiformis – arbitrarily treating all Acacia and Banksia as shrubs)
  • 1 additional species-photo (E. viminalis), taking the total species-photos to 6
• Shrubs:
  • 4 additional shrubs and as many as 6 (Daviesia mimosoides, Indigofera australis, Leucopogon lanceolata, Persoonia linearis, ?Grevillea ?anocissima, ?Leucopogon sp.), taking the total to 20 species
  • 3 additional species-photos, taking the total species-photos to 11
• Grasses:
  • 2 additional species (Sporobolus creber, Sorghum leiocladum), taking the total to 42
  • 8 additional species-photos (Dichelachne crinita, Enneapogon nigricans, Juncas fockeii, Lomandra filiformis, L. longifolia, L. multiflora, Plantago gaudichaudi, Plantago varia), taking the total species-photos to 21
• Flowering Plants:
  • 7 additional species (Aphanes australiana, Blechnum sp. (wattsii?), Centella asiatica, Centipeda cunninghamii, Crassula helmsii, Elatine gratioloides, Xerochrysum sp.), taking the total to 125
  • 14 additional species-photos (Astroloma humifusum, Bossiaea buxifolia, Brachycome scapigera, Centella asiatica, Centipeda minima, Elatine gratioloides, Fimbristylus dicholoma, Isoetopsis graminifolia, Laxmannia gracilis, Leucopogon fraseri, Opercularia hispida, Senecio quadridentata, Solengyne dominii, S. gunnii, Velleia montana), taking the total species-photos to 73

Naturally, all errors on this site are ours, not FOG's, and we'd appreciate corrections!!

The photos of plants are elsewhere. See: Flowering Plants, Grasses and Trees & Shrubs.

This page contains a couple of shots of people at the event.

For larger images, click on the thumbnails below:

LtoR: Margaret Strong, Anna Binning, Margaret Ning, Geoff Robertson, Brian Binning, Jan Adamski, Harry Tischler (obscured), Kitty Tischler, Carl Adamski, Libby Keen, Roger Clarke, Shirley Daniels, Warwick Daniels, Mary Appleby. Linda Spinaze behind the camera. Veronica Doerr and Kris Nash arrived a few minutes later		LtoR: Geoff Robertson, Anna Binning (obscured), Brian Binning, Veronica Doerr, Libby Keen, Margaret Ning, Warwick Daniels
Roger Clarke and NCT's Brian Binning	Geoff Robertson in full flow ...	... and Margaret Ning looking suitably sceptical
Late afternoon in the northern water-line	Margaret Ning, Geoff Robertson, Mary Appleby and Roger Clarke, near the NE corner	Mary Appleby, Roger Clarke, Margaret Ning and Geoff Robertson, at the eastern boundary

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Contact: Linda or Roger

Created: 11 May 2009; Last Amended: 24 May 2009