Save a Species Walk
Save a Species Walk is an event in New South Wales in Australia focused on preservation of rare and endangered plants.
Each event includes nominating specific plants. [1]
It involves a walk to raise money for seeds to be prepared and stored at the Australian PlantBank at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.[2][3]
Plants by year[]
The plants identified below are from the Royal Botanic Garden website [4]
2014[]
- needle-leaved geebung Persoonia acerosa
- glandular pink-bell Tetratheca glandulosa
- Olearia cordata
- Zieria involucrata
2015[]
- thick leaf star hair
- Budawangs cliff heath Budawangia gnidioides
- white flowered wax plant Cynanchum elegans
- buttercup doubletail orchid Diuris aequalis
- sparse heath Epacris sparsa
- Fletchers drumsticks Isopogon fletcheri
- Evans sedge
- Woronora beard heath
- dwarf mountain pine Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii
- velvet zieria Zieria murphyi
- black hooded sun orchid Thelymitra atronitida
- villous mint bush Prostanthera densa
- Grevillea parviflora subsp. supplicans
- Hibbertia stricta subsp. furcatula
2016[]
- narrow-leaved bertya Bertya ingramii
- four-tailed grevillea Grevillea quadricauda
- bordered guinea flower Hibbertia marginata
- Dorrigo waratah Alloxylon pinnatum
- tall knotweed Persicaria elatior
- Moonee Quassia Quassia sp. Mooney Creek
- trailing monotoca
- creeping hop-bush Dodonaea procumbens
- Suggan Buggan mallee Eucalyptus saxatilis
- Bega wattle Acacia georgensis
- musty leek orchid Prasophyllum pallens
Notes[]
Categories:
- Events in New South Wales
- Plant conservation