Linda and Roger's Bunhybee Grasslands - Trees and Shrubs

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Bunhybee Grasslands is a 49 hectare / 120 acre conservation property 35km south of Braidwood, in southern N.S.W.

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Information about Trees and Shrubs

Here is the Species List of trees and shrubs on the property.

Here are the References we've used in building up this information.

Given that the majority of the property is grasslands, this isn't the most important page on the site. On the other hand, as partly shown by the satellite imagery, there are some trees and shrubs:

  1. Snow-Gum Woodland along the western boundary, Jerrabatgulla Rd
  2. Scattered Trees and Shrubs on some other parts of the property
  3. The Adjacent Woodland on the Lots to the north and north-east

Photos of Trees and Shrubs

For shots from the FOG visit on 9 May 09, see the relevant parts of sections 2 and 3 below. See also separate listings of Flowers and Grasses photographed during that visit.

For larger images, click on the thumbnails below.

1. Snow-Gum Woodland

Along the western edge is a narrow rim of E. pauciflora [but which Ssp??]. The coverage is generally 25-50%, and the grasslands are apparently a little different here compared with the exposed areas that cover most of the proprety. (But that remains to be explored).

There's a limited but seemingly healthy bird-life in this sector, including a resident grey fantail, diamond firetails (seen on one of four visits during spring), eastern rosellas, 8 crested pigeons, and migrating yellow honeyeaters in spring and autumn (in large quantities, seen going both ways in the first year we were visiting the site).

A blue-tongue has been seen on one occasion. (A dog on a leash is much more likely to pick up something deep in grass than humans are!).
In the copse on the ridge, looking NE to Bunhybee Peak - Jun 08
Middle Block? - Sep 08
On South Block (note the power-lines), looking NE - Sep 08
Middle Block, with Mary Appleby - Oct 08
Possible E. dives (peppermint), South Block - 25 Apr 09
Possible E. rubida (candlebark), South Block - 25 Apr 09

Large E. rubida, small E. pauciflora ­ 10 May 09
Same pair, close-up. Close to the southern boundary
E. rubida leaves
A nearby pair of rubida pair, pauciflora pair
Large E. pauciflora a few metres inside southern boundary
It's probably the oldest and largest on the property ...
... immediately adjacent to the water-line
A. melanoxylon (blackwood),
amidst the Echidna Ridge copse, 1 Aug 08
A. melanoxylon, roadside, 6 Sep 09
Ditto
A. dealbata, roadside, 6 Sep 09

2. Scattered Trees and Shrubs

Across the remainder of the property (all but the Leptospermum ?obovatum from the Plan of Management, and many of them seen):

There's limited birdlife in this sector, but there's a resident lark, and a Richard's pipit was seen on one occasion, seemingly wandered in from the rather better pickings in the improved pasture across the road. A pair of nankeen kestrels has been seen over the property.

An echidna has been seen, as have various Eastern Grey Kangaroos that have wandered down out of the Bunhybee Peak woodland. Unfortunately, so have feral pigs, and one fox (dead).
Hakea microcarpa - 17 Oct 08
Leptospermum ?obovatum - 22 Feb 09
A lone Daviesia mimosiodes, northern slope of Echidna Ridge - 25 Apr 09
Daviesia mimosiodes, detail - 25 Apr 09
Leptospermum ?obovatum - 25 Apr 09
Leptospermum myrtilofolium, with mould, waterline on South Block - 25 Apr 09
Cassinia longifolia, waterline on South Block - 25 Apr 09
Leptospermum myrtifolium
­ 9 May 09
Leptospermum obovatum
E. viminalis seedling above the small dam
Acacia brownii
– 1 Aug 09
Ditto, close-up
Ac. brownii - 9 Sep 09
... close-up
Indigofera australis ...
... 22 Sep 2009
Kunzea parvifolia ...
... 22 Sep 2009
7 Oct 2009 ...
Daviesia mimosoides
D. mimosoides,
and wind
D. mimosoides,
close-up
... 7 Oct 2009
Kunzea parvifolia
Leptospermum lanigerum
11 Nov 2009
... Ditto ...
... Ditto
Allocasuarina ?distyla or ?littoralis
11 Nov 2009
16 Nov 2009
Allocasuarina ?distyla or ?littoralis ...
... close-up
Kunzea - 7 Nov 2009
Daviesia mimosoides
Ditto - 7 Nov 2009
Hakea microcarpa
Ditto
Ditto - 7 Nov 2009
Lomatia ilicifolia - 11 Nov 09 ...
... Ditto

3. The Adjacent Woodlands of Bunhybee Peak

The edges of the forest along the north-eastern boundary, and to a lesser extent the northern boundary, are dominated by snow-gums.

The edge of the forest in these segments is abrupt, and aligned with the edge of the property, which suggests that the forest originally continued some distance onto the property, that it was cleared at some stage, and that it has been held at bay by continued grazing. (But that all needs to be investigated).

On the eastern side, about 30-50 metres east and uphill from the boundary, there is a rapid transition to other species, which is readily visible in the canopy when it is viewed from the gate or the main ridge.

According to the Management Plan (1.8, p. 8 and App. B pp. 37-41), the other main species are:

Additional species since identified (in all cases with reasonable confidence, but without strong scientific claims!) include:

The birdlife is very different in the woodland, and includes magpies, a black-faced cuckoo-shrike, and (heard only) kookaburra, tree-creeper and another non-identified call.

General Shots
The NE Edge
The Differential Canopy
East of the Main Ridge
Just inside the Eastern Edge
Just inside the Eastern Edge
From the NE corner back to the ridge, with Peppermint
From the NE corner to the approaching storm in the West
To the NE corner from the northern edge

The Lone Peppermint
Peppermint in NE corner ­ 9 May 09
?E. dives (Broad-leaved)
?E. radiata (Narrow-leaved)
Its young fruit
Detail of its young fruit
Its old fruit
Its place in the landscape

Other Species
Red-trunked E. (ovata?) ­ 12 March 2009
E. ovata late afternoon, some Black Sally too? - 9 May 2009
E. dives (Broad-Leaved Peppermint) - 9 May 09
E. dalrympleana (Mountain White Gum)
E. dalrympleana (Mountain White Gum)
Oxylobium illicifolium - 9 May 09 ...
... Ditto
?Persoonia linearis
?Persoonia linearis
Leucopogon lanceolata - 9 May 09
Leucopogon lanceolata
?Leucopogon ?hookerei / ?Acrothamnus hookeri ...
... Ditto
Eucalypts flowering ...
... 20 Sep 09
Oxylobium ilicifolium
11 Nov 2009
... On the fenceline ...
... Ditto
Leucopogon lanceolatus
11 Nov 2009
... Ditto ...
... Ditto

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Contact: Linda or Roger

Created: 8 December 2008; Last Amended: 26 November 2009