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The following images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. CC BY-SA . URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. This means that the photos are free to share for both personal and commercial use, provided that the photographer and the Queensland Science Network are acknowledged and a similar licence is conveyed to third-party users. The photographer’s name is included in the title of the image.

 

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A drystone wall used as a windbreak at Pt Hicks lighthouse (Vic). Similar walls were built on properties in western Victorias rock strewn plains for stock control using cheap labour (convicts, Chinese, Aboriginal). These would normally be about one metre high and could be many kilometres long. Ron Turner QSN CC-BY-SA
Bamboo Nastus elatus, New Guinea Green. Unlike most bamboos, the young shoots can be eaten raw, without boiling to remove bitterness. G Edwards CC-BY-SA
Bambusa tuldoides, commonly used for tool handles because the stems are solid or nearly solid. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
Bunya cones Cones of Bunya Bunya. A seed is traceable in the loose segment in the top right of the picture. Seeds in the top left half-cone have been removed by Sulphur-crested Cockatoos while the cone was on the ground.
Cane Toads, an alien amphibian now widespread in northern Australia, are cold-blooded and become inactive during winter. Numbers will cluster under piles of timber for shelter. G. Edwards QSN CC_BY_SA
Chinese Trumpet Creeper, a colourful garden ornamental. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
Coral Vine, Antigonon leptopus, is a very hardy vine often used to cover fences in tropical and subtropical climates. However, it can become an aggressive weed and needs continual trimming to keep it under control.
Cubberla Creek, Kenmore, showing water polluted with urban effluent and also some clumps of filamentous algae, common where there is an excess of nitrogen and phosphorus in the water. The image shows that the creek has been reduced to a series of puddles which is typical of catchments that have been hardened with concrete and asphalt. Rain that falls during storms rushes off quickly to flood the creeks, instead of soaking into the ground and seeping out slowly during dry weather to maintain flow. G Edwards CC-BY-SA
Dendrocalamus brandisii, commonly used for construction. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
Diploglottis campbellii, Small-leaved Tamarind, is rare and threatened in the wild. Wikipedia reports that it is “restricted to a small number of sites each with a maximum of three trees per site. There are a total of 42 known mature wild trees in south-east Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales”. However, it germinates readily from seed and the seeds shown in this photo sprouted and quickly grew into seedlings large enough to plant out. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
Eucalypts shed twigs and small branches continually, unlike deciduous trees which shed all their leaves in autumn. The smooth-barked eucalypts called ‘gums’ can shed large branches at any time of the year, even without warning in calm weather. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
European Carp thrive in waters of poor quality, giving an example of positive feedback as their method of feeding stirs up sediment from the bed of the waterway and worsens quality. This photograph is of carp caught during an annual fishing competition at Charleville. A sponsored prize of a ‘tinnie’ was won by the fisher bringing in the largest specimen.
Fresh growth of Bunya Pine, a native conifer in the same genus as Hoop Pine. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
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Ghost Bamboo Bambusa chungii is shown here with debris washed down the slope by stormwater, captured by the stems of the bamboo. Bamboos can be excellent erosion controllers – but make sure that you plant only the clumping types. The running types can rapidly become serious weeds that are difficult to control. G Edwards CC-BY-SA
Granadillas are a species of passionfruit with a soft skin which makes them vulnerable to attacks by fruit fly, unlike the normal temperate Black Passionfruit and sub-tropical Yellow Passionfruit. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA
Grevillea banksii is native to South-east Queensland. It makes a impressive display and is suitable for large gardens, although it can become straggly. It is highly attractive to native birds but flowers for a relatively short time, a small number of weeks; whereas some of the ornamental hybrid grevilleas available from nurseries flower nearly continuously year-round.
Hoop Pine, a native conifer found naturally over nearly the length of coastal Queensland. It is unpalatable to cattle and it is possible to grow a plantation in a grazed paddock without fencing the young trees. G Edwards CC-BY-SA
Hoop Pine, so-called because sometimes the outer bark is shed in circular rings. This distinctive characteristic is not particularly obvious in this photograph. G Edwards CC-BY-SA
Macrozamia lucida, identified by the different leaf characteristics from M. macleayi (formerly M. miquelii). Thanks, Queensland Herbarium, for the identification. G Edwards CC-BY-SA
Mango tree in flower. These flowers require dry weather if they are to ‘set’ and develop into fruit. G Edwards QSN CC-BY-SA

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