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Evergreen Buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
I only saw this one and I pulled it out.
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New Zealand Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Note the cabbage tree growing from the top of what remains of the guttering of this old abdandoned building waiting for demolition. Look on Google Street View, I see it as a smaller plant back in August 2023.
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Chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
With a pleasant sweet scent. Note the tap root. German chamomile?
Just one small patch of plants, all right next to each other, on some bare ground where some pipe maintenance was recently done. Perhaps it came in with the machinery.
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Nodding Thistle (Carduus nutans)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Just one plant, on some bare ground where some pipe maintenance was recently done. I'm not sure if the seed blew in or came in with the machinery.
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South Island Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa ssp. fuliginosa)Observer
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Magpie Moth (Nyctemera annulata)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Collected for Will Frost.
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Saint John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
This small patch on the roadside is the only patch of Saint John's wort I know of at the moment anywhere along my 20 km daily bike commute between Christchurch and Lincoln via Halswell and Ladbrooks.
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Steelblue Ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
On a flax by the river. This is the first steel-blue ladybird I've seen in Wigram.
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Kererū (New Zealand Pigeon) (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae ssp. novaeseelandiae)Observer
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Pōhutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Some late flowers on one branch of this pohutukawa.
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Sand Primrose (Oenothera stricta)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
This primrose, and California poppy, have showed up at the Candys Road construction site. I've not seen either species here before. I expected they arrived as seed in the construction gravels.
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Domestic Greylag Goose (Anser anser var. domesticus)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
In a field with sheep.
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Matuku (Egretta novaehollandiae ssp. novaehollandiae)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Under a dairy farm field wet from a centre pivot irrigator
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Radishes (Genus Raphanus)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Or a Raphanus-Brassica hybrid as those were being trialled in a field across the road recently and have been spreading.