MJ's little flock

[BY Bob]

Me neither

This is more widespread than I thought!

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning all.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening MJ and everyone

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning all.

Good morning Bob



Baby Alice is adorable

 

[RoyalChick]

Honestly MJ, without me being there with an identification guide, I really have no chance of identifying the species.

Google tells me that there are over 700 species of Eucalyptus.
I was just happy with your ID of it being a Eucalyptus.

When I was trying to identify the Blues Gums I planted as unnamed seedlings, the book I used started with the type of bark and went through all the characteristics of the tree finally getting to the structure of the flower for some species. Nomenclature can be very interesting but you need to be a bit of a detective! I still have trouble with the difference between a bottle brush (Callistemon) and a Melaleuca. (It's in the way the stamens are arranged. You need to look at them with a handy dandy pocket magnifier)

Sorry for the lecture.... I love Aussie natives.

Chicken tax.
Baby Alice
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An education on trees and baby Alice in one post? It doesn't get much better than that!

 

[Ribh]

Honestly MJ, without me being there with an identification guide, I really have no chance of identifying the species.

Google tells me that there are over 700 species of Eucalyptus.
I was just happy with your ID of it being a Eucalyptus.

When I was trying to identify the Blues Gums I planted as unnamed seedlings, the book I used started with the type of bark and went through all the characteristics of the tree finally getting to the structure of the flower for some species. Nomenclature can be very interesting but you need to be a bit of a detective! I still have trouble with the difference between a bottle brush (Callistemon) and a Melaleuca. (It's in the way the stamens are arranged. You need to look at them with a handy dandy pocket magnifier)

Sorry for the lecture.... I love Aussie natives.

Chicken tax.
Baby Alice
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Ok, educate me. All our Melaleuca are paperbarks so really easy to tell from a callistemon. Are there Melaleucas that aren't paperbarks?

 

[Ribh]

Today's breakfast is the same as yesterday's except those are Peggy's eggs and that's the cup I got from Fortnum & Mason a couple of years ago.

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Loving the colours in your teacup today.

 

[MaryJanet]

Honestly MJ, without me being there with an identification guide, I really have no chance of identifying the species.

Google tells me that there are over 700 species of Eucalyptus.
I was just happy with your ID of it being a Eucalyptus.

When I was trying to identify the Blues Gums I planted as unnamed seedlings, the book I used started with the type of bark and went through all the characteristics of the tree finally getting to the structure of the flower for some species. Nomenclature can be very interesting but you need to be a bit of a detective! I still have trouble with the difference between a bottle brush (Callistemon) and a Melaleuca. (It's in the way the stamens are arranged. You need to look at them with a handy dandy pocket magnifier)

Sorry for the lecture.... I love Aussie natives.

Chicken tax.
Baby Alice
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Awww she's so cute she broke the cute-o-meter!

 

[MaryJanet]

Love the cup. Yummy brekky too.

It was yummy bacon. Smoked