Plants



Flowering Plants: Focus on plants with flowers or fruit, as those without are often impossible to identify. If flowers and fruit are present, photograph both. A photo of the leaf, and the growth style of the plant (shrub, tree, small plant), aid in ID as well.

Cultivated - This refers to plants that were directly seeded by humans, which may not always be in a garden. QuestaGame focuses on wild plants, so we prefer not to receive sightings of cultivated plants. Weeds are not seeded directly by humans, so they count. Any insects or spiders on them are fair game.



Plus family specific extras:

Eucalypts  - in the case of gumtrees, bark, leaf and gumnuts (you can usually find some under the tree.) 

'''Hibbertia - We need to be able to see the arrangement of the stamens to determine most Hibbertia species. '''

'''Hakea - The woody seed capsules of Hakeas are important in identifying species. '''

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rhododendron <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> - The back of Rhododendron leaves are an important aid to identification. <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#ff9900;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(only for countries where native, so Bhutan, China, etc. but not Australia). '''

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" id="docs-internal-guid-902ebbe7-7fff-b894-68a9-a3741624fa94"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Non-Flowering Plants: Something to keep in mind when submitting plants please submit pictures of the whole plant as well as close ups of features that may be used for identification, leaves, cones, etc. Notes on size of cones and leaves also help.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ferns - Identification of ferns relies on such features as the size, shape and distribution of the sori (the brown spots on the back of a fertile frond, doesn’t matter if it is dead) and the shape of the scales at the base of the rhachis (the fronds stem).