Threatened Orchid translocation

Posted at 10 Oct 2018 at 11:31h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Species of the month, Threatened Orchid translocation, Threatened Orchids by
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The orchid flowering season is well upon us and the following photograph is of the Metallic Sun-orchid or Thelymitra epipactoides which is a nationally threatened orchid species. This photograph was taken at the translocation site in Desert Camp recently by one of our valued volunteers...

Posted at 06 Aug 2016 at 19:31h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Threatened Orchid translocation, Threatened Orchids by
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In recent threatened flora news we have two sub-projects of RUEC to talk about: Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) and threatened orchids. Avenue Cassinia is a critically endangered shrub endemic to the area between Kingston SE, South Australia, and Edenhope, Victoria. There are only about 1200 known...

Posted at 14 Aug 2015 at 03:11h in Community Nursery Project, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Threatened Orchid translocation, Threatened Orchids by
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[caption id="attachment_12530" align="alignright" width="300"] Elegant Spider-orchid (Bryan Haywood)[/caption] Eleven days of intricate and rewarding field work has recently come to an end after four nationally threatened terrestrial orchid species were successfully translocated into 8 sites throughout the South East through the Restoring the Under-represented Ecological Communities...