Sifton Bush, Chinese Shrub at Watson, ACT
Identification history
| Cassinia sifton | 1 Sep 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Cassinia sifton | 31 Aug 2022 | MPW |
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Erect shrub, almost covered in 1000's of (old) tiny flowers, small elongate "Conifer like" leaves. Only 3 plants along this Track location, that I could see. Suspect it's not a local species ? Wind dispersed tiny seeds.
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waltraud
wrote:
1 Sep 2022
It is local (Mts Majura/Ainslie) Max. The species wasn't visible during 2000-2010 drought and heavy rabbit grazing (rabbits love young Cassinia). I noticed the first Sifton bush plants around 2013 growing in the paddock; over the past years more started to grow for instance along the transmissions powerline easement. Farmers don't like them as they can become "weedy".
Location information
- Coordinates 149.175833-35.236389
- Maps Mount Majura
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
Additional information
- Very tiny florets, a few mm Flower dimension
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
- True In flower
Species information
- Cassinia sifton Scientific name
- Sifton Bush, Chinese Shrub Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 864m Recorded at altitude
- 230 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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