Bungendore - Spooks Hill - Summer- January 22
It's been a while since I walked up to Spooks Hill and it's interesting to see the grasses once green are tall and dry, their seed heads nodding in the breeze. The native raspberry Rubus parvifolius have sweet, red berries though they are desiccating on the brambles. The Scotch Thistle Onoporium acanthium seems to have been taken over by a new type of thistle that I've never seen before but looks to be Carthamus lanatus.
I spotted another plant I hadn't seen before. It looks like some kind of Eryngos but I can't be sure what kind. There was also a tree heaving with small yellow fruit. They tasted like plums so I'm assuming that the tree was a yellow fruiting Cherry-Plum Prunus cerasifera. I wasn't sure if several of the purple flowering plants along the path were Paterson's Curse Echium plantagineum because they don't look like the ID photos.
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Azotacristos (Carthamus lanatus)Observ.
froggie79Descripción
Has overtaken Scotch Thistle throughout the Spooks Hill Reserve
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froggie79Descripción
Berries are past their prime and now desiccating on the bramble
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Viborera (Echium plantagineum)Observ.
froggie79Descripción
This doesn't look like the examples in the ID photos but in pretty sure it's Patterson's Curse
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Ciruelo Mirobolano (Prunus cerasifera)Observ.
froggie79Descripción
The fruit are deliciously sweet, tart and definitely plum tasting though it's the first time I've seen yellow plums
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