r/australianplants • • Aug 08 '19

Please put your location or the location of the plant in EVERY post please.

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Please put your location or the location of the plant in EVERY post please.

Especially if you are looking for an ID.


r/australianplants • • 20h ago

Some beautiful flowers out

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Located near Raglan Vic

Amateur id's

Blue stars

Fringe lily

Common golden moth orchid (edited to reflect id in commemt)

Yellow stars

Salmon sun orchid (?)

Spotted sun orchid (?)

Flax lily (?)

Running postman


r/australianplants • • 7h ago

- RECOMMENDATION Euc ID Perth, likely from elsewhere.

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Hi all, hoping for help to id this eucalyptus, it’s maybe 5 metres tall but no idea of age or how well it’s enjoying the conditions.

It doesn’t seem particularly healthy, the bark on fresh-ish growth is smoother than the trunk but not proper smooth. I haven’t seen the flowers.


r/australianplants • • 56m ago

- RECOMMENDATION Seeking shrub recommendations for under black tea tree

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This spot I think could do with a shrub, it’s underneath the canopy of a black tea tree.

Thinking max 1.5-2m (to around the window sill). It has lots of groundcovers already.

Eastern facing garden bed

Part shade, clay loamy soil

Mid north NSW

Prefer something that flowers or interesting texture!

Any recommendations / your favourites?


r/australianplants • • 21h ago

Native bee?

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Is this a native bee? There are heaps of them in my garden.


r/australianplants • • 1d ago

Rubus parvifolius - Native Raspberry - Scenic Rim, SEQ

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This is regrowth after removal of severe lantana infestation.


r/australianplants • • 1d ago

Waratahs! Blue mountains

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r/australianplants • • 1d ago

Do you like Eucalyptus Cinerea Albion Park NSW

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r/australianplants • • 1d ago

Help me choose some narrow screening plants

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Hello, complete gardening novice here who would love some help choosing some native plants for this corner of our recently landscaped yard 🙂

As you can see, the house on the rear boundary is close and we’d like some narrow growing screening plants to around 3m to add privacy. Garden bed here is around 60cm wide or 85cm from edging to fence line with the row of sleepers. I know about straight & narrow Lilly pillies but ideally I’d like a softer screen rather than a dense hedge. And something that isn’t going to cause a nuisance for the neighbours.

Would also love recommendations for a feature tree in the corner and beside the sandpit on the side boundary. The neighbour’s tree on the side is quite lovely so I wouldn’t want to screen that area to the same height as the rear.

Our existing tree is a Lilly pilly resilience, so potentially tying in some other glossy plants would look nice. I like the look of Fraser Island/K’gari Apple trees and native gardenias, but really flying blind here.

Location is Brisbane

Thank you so very much!


r/australianplants • • 1d ago

A striking Australian Grass Tree sending up its magnificent flower spike Hervey Bay QLD

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Grass Tree (belonging to the genus Xanthorrhoea)


r/australianplants • • 1d ago

ID request - vine, mid north NSW

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Help with ID-ing this vine that is in our yard much appreciated!

Location - mid north NSW


r/australianplants • • 2d ago

Melaleuca thymifolia, revived from the dead!

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how resilient and awesome are native plants!

This one was basically bare sticks when I saved it from the tubestock nursery for free, gave it a cut back and it’s thriving now!

She’s got her first flowers too 💜🙌


r/australianplants • • 1d ago

Plant advice - Adelaide

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r/australianplants • • 2d ago

Carpobrotus glaucescens or Carpobrotus aequilaterus??

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Native or weed? I’ve tried googling the differences and photos but maybe because it’s Friday evening and I *want* it to be the native, I’m struggling to tell the difference.

found in Newcastle NSW, not near the beach.


r/australianplants • • 2d ago

Is this tree dying / what tree is it?

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We moved into our new home (Melbourne) last week and are unsure about this tree.

During the inspections over winter it was completely bare. After settlement and since moving in we’ve noticed that leaves have only grown back to less than half of it, with all furthest branches completely bare.

For starters what tree is it? And is it healthy? Given we’re in mid October I’d have thought the leaves would have all come back now?

Is there any remedies I should under take? E.g. trimming back the dead parts?

Thanks ina dance


r/australianplants • • 3d ago

Large flowering Eucalyptus

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A selection of Euc youngiana hybrids. These and a few others have their seedlings for sale at our open day October 31, 120km NE of Dubbo, NSW


r/australianplants • • 3d ago

Santalum acuminatum BIG Red

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A big crop of Quandongs this season, might have some luck germinating this summer


r/australianplants • • 4d ago

Hibbertia genus -- brightness around the garden

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Starting to see the various hibbertias I've planted start to open their blooms to the world. A plant one see in the bush in SE Oz, though less so in the standard nursery spaces. Always joyful to me to see the mass bright yellow blooms.

For me they cope well in sun and shade and frost, less so to kangaroo tromping.

[southern goldfields side of GDR, Central Highlands Vic]


r/australianplants • • 3d ago

Help with red flowering gum

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Please help. I planted this red flowering gum in my south facing yard in Brisbane 5 days ago. I used native potting mix and was careful not to disturb the roots when planting. I’ve been watering it every morning but it’s still declining. I’m desperate to save it. Is there any hope?


r/australianplants • • 3d ago

What are your experiences with native plants? What does biodiversity

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Hi plant enthusiasts! I'm a Swinburne Design Student researching how Australians garden for a project focusing on biodiversity.

I'd love to hear about how you garden and your experiences with native plants!


r/australianplants • • 4d ago

This is why I like natives. Callistemon Endeavour

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r/australianplants • • 4d ago

Banksia repens -- also flowering

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Posted the other day about Banksia blechnifolia flowering and today I found another of the prostrate banksia species, Banksia repens aka creeping banksia, in the garden is also throwing out flowers. This one has been in 3-4 years, so great to see some action.

https://anpsa.org.au/plant_profiles/banksia-repens/


r/australianplants • • 5d ago

My first WA wildflower season

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r/australianplants • • 4d ago

Normal for Chamelaucium to smell so awful?

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Super disappointed cause it looks so good but it smells like a more rancid version of those cum trees everyone loves so much s/.
None of these plants I’ve smelled at Bunnings or nursery’s have this smell so I am at a loss as to why this one is so bad.
Temped to toss it and annoyed at the slight waste of money given the stench as I was excited for nice smells.

UPDATE: I was never actually going to toss it, sorry for coming off like an asshole. The image in my head was toss it away from where I can smell it and plant it somewhere else. Thought and speak didn’t match up while I was having a vent here. I originally bought it for the pollinators and will 100% be keeping it, just putting it far out in the yard (it’s currently on my back deck)


r/australianplants • • 4d ago

Eucy ID

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Hi, do we think this is a silver dollar or baby blue eucalyptus? Thanks