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Nearly at the end of my trip, and not all that much to show for it apart from even more questions about A. peuce, and more info on the species than i could post here lol some seeds will be making it home, and apparently do well in cultivation. I did find some caparis mitchelii and spinosa - took some cuttings of the spinosa and a portulaca with nice big leaves. D. Hopwoodii and all other solanaceae for that matter remain elusive theres still hope yet - we dont leave boulia until tomorrow afternoon, but we have been so busy the entire time. I think i have around 50 pages of notes and observations about A. peuce. More when i get back

lol i was going to say it looked like oxalis trangularis - i knew i wasnt though, coz i have one and it doesnt look like that. endor I can give you some of the oxalis next time i see you. It has little pink/orange tubers that look like little grubs lol

herbalistics has alicia sp. (black aya?) as well as an unidentified malphigaceae (probably banisteriopsis sp.) in stock as well as some interesting caapi varieties

why not i need some cheering up. ill post my offer a bit later and pm ww when my offer is up (also to the person who offered b. versicola cuttings earlier or anyone else who has this sp. Im interested! let me know BY PM ONLY so as not to disrupt the thread any more) ok here it is vvv gets 12x d. hopwoodii seed (from the mulligan river area i believe), ~10-15 d. myoporoides seeds, 2x soursop (annona muricata) seedlings ~5-10cm, nexus cutting (i think i have a rooted one, but Im not sure atm - if not 5 unrooted), p. carthaginensis cutting (rooted - 15-20cm), 2x brugmansia 'culebra' unrooted cuttings ~10cm, as well as an assortment of tbm, opuntia macrocentra (purple prickly pear), and red and white dragonfruit unrooted cuttings (pretty much to fill use any remaining weight in the express bag(s)) vvvv thank you

no link - it was from personal communication with someone who had a lab certificate taken from the product which was taken from my posession (hint hint). i made sure to specifically ask what the substance in question was and he told me xlr-11 in the 5f-ur-144 group or something along those lines (i was a bit shaken up at the time and had never even heard of either), and the reference to kidney damage is from wiki. and as soon as i get a new laptop ill fill you in endor (my laptop shat itself last night - just another thing to add to the list -_- )

i found out today (not going to go into detail how) that Bombay blue - at least the one sold in north qld - contains a compound called xlr-11, related to am-2201, and has been linked to acute kidney damage (mods feel free to remove this if i shouldnt post this). so there you go - just reaffirms my view that theres some bad stuff in these things, as well as the fact it is classified as a prohibited poison in qld rather than a dangerous drug. be careful people; as always the tried and true is better than the crap trying to emulate it

Just reading through this thread again reminded me of my Oxalis triangularis - I only just found out what it was (had it for about 2 years - picked it up at the markets). Anyone know much about it's edibility? It has tiny caterpillar looking bulbs, but nice big purple leaves, and despite being in full sun, indoors, standing in water for weeks on end etc over the years it has never given up, and even dropped a bulb on the ground near the pot it's in somehow, which grew on the surface of heavy clay with a layer of gravel until my friend found it and potted it up one day. There is another oxalis sp which has purplish flowers and green leaves that pops up in along the pavement line where the pipes come out for the shower, dishwasher etc, which looks nice too and seems to be very tolerant (growing in pretty much constant standing water with detergent and stuff in it all the time, and full sun for half the day. Prickly pears are a good one, and if you have only one or two the weediness could be controlled by regular harvesting of the pads (you would only need to take a couple off for your scrambled eggs on a sunday morning to keep it pretty compact). Is there much difference in taste between the pads of different spp? I have an O. macrocentra which would look nice in food, but not sure how it would taste (compared to the more succulent green local variety which grows all over town). That also got me thinking about figs (after seeing the name ficus indica lol) - F. carica would do well in most areas (it even seems to do ok here in townsville, which is fairly humid most of the time), and there are lots of wild species in the wet tropics (and everywhere really), most of which have edible fruit. The good thing about figs is they propagate from cuttings readily, so if you find one that tastes good you can take some cuttings and most will grow as well as the parent (if you emulate its microclimate as much as possible). brahmi and gotu kola are good ones too, and basil - all grow pretty much anywhere and often naturalize. I made pasta with brahmi, gotu kola (as a parsley substitute) and tulsi as the main herbage and my parents said it was the best they have had in years (I told them what i used after they ate it and told me it was awesome ). Dioscorea alata pops up reliably every year here as well after planting some a few years ago. Never tried the yams though

Id say your right about it being Macrolepiota dolichaula - doesnt look as rough though

The top one looks a bit like a 'death cap' - amanita phalloides. Whatever it is it doesnt look edible. Interestingly though, A. phalloides is actually supposed to taste really good (before you start shitting out the pulpy remains of your liver lol)

Not sure about age to maturity - given their long life span probably at least 5-10 years. I think most trees out there are either old or seedlings (due to changes in fire regimes etc, which is kind of the focus of the subject), its hard to say though without ever seeing them in person. Hopefully Ill come back full of info like i did after the last field based subject I did. I think I will bring something to collect living specimens (not of the acacias, but other things I find around the place). We are only going to one area (boulia), and stopping overnight in winton - not sure how much exploration time we will have there though. I do have pituri seeds from the mulligan river area though, so maybe if I can find some where Im going it'll be useful for comparison. Im not entirely convinced the alkaloid content of pituri is location based. I think it might have more to do with preparation

Cant harvest seedlings - id say that wont go down too well lol. As far as I know most erythroxylum are difficult to propagate from cuttings, but then again... But there werent any fruit when I was there (middle of winter - last rainfall about 6 months prior) and I didnt even think to collect a specimen for my assignment (which would have been an awesome inclusion) let alone propagation material. It wouldnt have survived anyway - I didnt have anything to put it in until I got back here a few days later. A. peuce can grow to around 18m - its also unusually long-lived for an acacia, some sources cite up to 500years but research from the lecturers who run the subject estimate the life span at closer to 200-300 years Edit: maybe its not the tallest (not sure where I got that from actually) =] probably the tallest thing in the middle of the simpson desert though

Was hoping a few seeds might accidentally fall into my pocket while Im checking them out (if they are fruiting at that time of year - Iv found reports of 2 different flowering seasons, so id say time of the year isnt as important as other factors like rain). They look really cool and I think they are the tallest acacia (maybe only in Aus). Nicotiana is a good one to look for, as well as isotoma. Not sure about the erythroxylum, but I did find some E. elliptica at undara (west of cairns), which was a fairly desolate place but probably isnt as dry is boulia

This is true - I cant bring myself to cut it though - its my fastest growing (and arguably 'most mature') cactus, and Im waiting to see whether it pups from high up like terscheckii tends to or from the base like other tricho's usually do. Its also one of the few cacti I (painfully) moved inside during yasi - it took me and a friend to move it because it was so heavy, and at that time it was only a bit taller than knee height. Maybe one day Ill take some cuttings

Update is here =] - she's still growing straight up with no sign of pupping yet, and is now taller than me (im 5'11''). I had planned on taking it with me when I eventually move, but I dont think it will fit on the back of my parent's ute, and definitely wont fit in my falcon lol No flowers yet either

It is an acacia (if it has spines) - they grow around my place. Iv been trying to identify the species for a while now - most likely an african sp

Eh - getting rid of them isnt such a bad thing either though, here they usually farm sap sucking insects rather than protect the plants from predators (apart from me when I get too close ). Id say in their natural habitat there are different species of ants that do a different job, but here they are more of a problem then anything

Huzzah! I knew it had to be an ipomea - the flowers are a dead give away. Some species (and indeed the entire convolvulaceae family) are known to have fairly variable leaves (most are heart-shaped, but they can elongate and get pointy tips - sagittate - or they can be kind of palmately compound like this one and a few others). Sometimes the same individual has different leaves on different parts of the plant too

Good observation. They arent common here, so i havnt had a good look at them before

Your right - the leaves are different and the flowers arent vibrant enough

Yea Iv seen a few of his posts on facebook in the last couple of days. Id say he's just recovering from the fast

Ipomea coccinea (red morning glory) I think. Its pretty common in some parts of QLD, and I think its an introduced species like a lot of morning glorys in australia are. It doesnt seem to be as invasive as some though

Id definitely be interested in some seed if there will be some available. The fruit should turn red or pink and possibly feel soft or split when it's ripe. Its always nice to see cacti producing a fruit, because its pretty common for the flowers to drop and the fruit to abort (at least in my experience) - I have a 10m tall dragon fruit (hylocereus) and the only time its ever produced a fruit it turned out to be small and weird looking and full of green ants! tricho - It would be worth at least attempting the hybrid, as the results may surprise you. I wouldnt expect it to produce fruit or viable seeds, but you'll never know unless you try. You may be able to salvage some pollen from a closed flower, but not too sure if itll accept pollen after its closed (again you never know though, cacti are notorious for having male and female parts that mature at different times, so it may accept the pollen even after its closed). My trichos have never flowered, but i believe they only stay open for one night

I have all of those (not much pereskiopsis at the moment though) if your interested. Where abouts in NQ are you? Im in Brownsville

This is the first part of the list (havnt taken a list of the cacti yet, but they should be up later) once its complete ill add it to the classifieds too A lot of these things I havnt started propagating, so If you want the cuttings to have roots you can kind of place an order and ill get them going. Prices will be negotiated between me and the buyer, because most people seem interested in multiple items Here we go: ~30x Psychotria viridis cuttings (most will be fairly small ~10cm) Up to 15 or so Tabernanthe iboga (depending on whether they cooperate - they decide if they want to work with me or not in my experience ) 5-6 Psychotria x 'Nexus' ~10cm ~3x Psychotria Carthagenensis ~10cm ~5x Piper methysticum (small cuttings 2-3 nodes - 3 sold pending payment) 4-5 Catha edulis (depends if i can get them to strike - never had much luck with them) 2x Diospyros digyna - Black sapote (seed grown ~10cm) Several vanilla orchid cuttings (from my mum - she wants about $10ea. I think they are rooted) Too much white dragonfruit for me to measure About to plant about 20 Erythrina vespertilio seeds locally collected, so I should have a bunch of seedlings in a week or 2 (they are very fast growing when young) If you are in my region (townsville) i also have available for pick up only A 6 foot voacanga africana (probably asking at least $100 -maybe more- for it unless too many people think thats unreasonable) A 30cm Mimosa tenuiflora plant Probably other things too that would be too heavy/awkward to post This list doesnt include the cacti yet, so stay tuned

A few Erythrina vespertilio (bat wing coral tree) seedlings available and some native ginger rhizomes