16/08/23 Flora & Fungi survey: Yellingbo

Notes from: a Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater hosted citizen science event.
It was a cool, overcast start at just 4 degrees, but beautiful blue skies opened up by 11am :)
A team of 7 flora survey volunteers hit the ground running. With thanks to the generosity of a local wholesale nursery, Carawah Nursery, we planted some donated Epacris impressa, then continued on from last month, learning how to ID emerging orchids, then finding and protecting them. Amy had a great find - the first known record of Small Tongue-orchid in Yellingbo Nature Conservation Area, reinforcing why we were doing what we're doing! Some of the orchids were now flowering, so we could confirm those ones as Mayfly Orchids, Common Bird Orchids and Nodding Greenhoods. These orchids will become dormant before upcoming management works begin, so identifying where they are will ensure they don't get disturbed, and unintentionally lost. In amongst the orchids were all sorts of other fabulous plants and fungi, all recorded!
Great job Amy W, Bruce, Rachel, Linda, Robert, Sue B and Sue T!!
Thanks also to Robert for a fabulous raspberry slice, fresh from the oven. We all went back for a 2nd piece - or was that just me?? Thank you Robert 😊💓

Posted on August 18, 2023 10:22 PM by regnans