#atriplex

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 25 August 2024

The salt-tolerance of the native annual plant Atriplex patula (spear saltbush, common orache, spear orach, spreading orach) means it can grow grow in coastal areas and the verges of salt-treated roads, where the soil has increased salinity. This species is a wildflower in the U.K. but can be invasive in some other parts of the world.

Jill Raggett

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Chapman Road Scientific Reserve

Another place of scientific interest that was promptly put on the To-Do list when @purrdence found out about it. The reserve was established to preserve the salt-pan habitat, which used to be much more common in Central Otago until agriculture and irrigation trashed most of them.

As a result the reserve is one of the few places in Central Otago that still has salt-loving plants like Atriplex buchananii, and two species of moth that feed on that plant - Paranotoreas fulva and an undescribed Loxostege.

Unfortunately the reserve is also overrun with introduced weeds, but at least a few were new to me. I also got a closer look at Golden scabweed than I did in Cromwell, where I had to lean over the fence.

[botaniqueer]

Red orach (Atriplex hortensis)

[micmol]

Atriplex sp. . #desertplant #atriplex #vegetation #botanyphotography #lookingdown #summertime (at Spiaggia Libera di Marina Di Vecchiano) https://www.instagram.com/p/CREpSlOn1U9/?utm_medium=tumblr

[velthurvik]

Schmetterling im Meldestrauch

Quelle: Bilder aus dem Ponnsdorfer Land

[botaniqueer]

Raising red orach (Atriplex hortensis) for the first time and noticed that they do guttation! They have sparkling dew on the undersides of their leaves and their stems and it looks really pretty!

[crudlynaturephotos]

[crudlynaturephotos]