Androcalva (genus)

Bush Kurrajong at Saint Georges Basin, NSW

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Androcalva (genus) Tapirlord 19 Jul 2022
Androcalva (genus) Tapirlord 19 Jul 2022
Unverified helenmd12@gmail.com 12 Sep 2019

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Large stand of trees on Garden Island, St Georges Basin. Native or exotic? Not great pictures, as taken from a kayak. Interesting point - Sepelchre Island, very close by, seems to have none.

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   13 Sep 2019
Androcalva fraseri, previously Commersonia fraseri.
   16 Sep 2019
Thank you. Any thoughts on how or when it got there? Is it likely to be indigenous? Somehow I suspect not. There are none on the nearby island, so what does that tell us about how it might spread? Only by suckering?
   16 Sep 2019
It is a native and produces seeds. Thickets tend to form on disturbed land.
   16 Sep 2019
Thanks. I knew it was native. I meant "native" to this island. I suspect it can't be. But maybe it is?? Or seed must have arrived somehow. But if by birds, or wind or however, why doesn't seed make its way to the nearby island?
   16 Sep 2019
Seed dispersal is a chance event, no telling where seeds or spores end up!

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  • 16 - 100 Abundance
  • 1 Sep 2019 10:17 AM Recorded on
  • helenmd12@gmail.com Recorded by
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