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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
17 min ago
Just uploaded this my own sighting in Shiptons Flat region (south of Cooktown),
for our edification : Aphananthe philippinensis (rough-leaved elm, native elm, axe-handle wood)
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Aphananthe philippinensis
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
53 min ago
I hope you sight the whale bone tree(s) too.
IMHO i am not always correct. I do have skills. :)
Aphananthe philippinensis
JenniferS wrote:
1 hr ago
I’m quite excited by this! 😂
Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
JenniferS wrote:
1 hr ago
You are correct of course! But I do have whale bone tree here somewhere as well.
Aphananthe philippinensis
SandraH wrote:
1 hr ago
Opuntia elata
Crassula sieberiana

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Austroacacidiplosis botrycephalae

Eolophus roseicapilla

Eolophus roseicapilla

Vespula germanica

Poecilometis sp. (genus)

Aphananthe philippinensis at Rossville, QLD

Plesanemma fucata

Simaethula sp. (genus) at Poowong North, VIC

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

Opodiphthera helena

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