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Where have all the flatweeds gone?

To: "'Geoffrey Dabb'" <>, <>
Subject: Where have all the flatweeds gone?
From: "Nicki Taws" <>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:15:13 +1000

Capeweed is an annual. It should be germinating as we speak after last week’s rain. It will spread its rosettes over winter then flower in spring, set seed and then die back in summer.

 

Cheers

 

Nicki Taws

0408 210736

 

 

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 11:21 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Where have all the flatweeds gone?

 

There is an almost total absence of capeweed on the local urban park.  This has been a favourite food of W Cockatoos in past years (along with another flatweed Nicki identified last June as Sheep’s Burnett).  There might be lean pickings for the cockatoo influx this Winter.  Ground-feeding cockatoos at the moment are working on thin dry roots of various other weeds and on things like fallen seeds of prunus etc

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