Morning Glories at the Town Common

I went to the Town Common which is a reserve here in Townsville for wildlife and was wondering if there would be mg's growing wild, well there was and I took some pics to share.

Wallaby at the Town Common.

The first mg spotted was I.Coccinea growing everywhere.

The plant growing wild intermingled with triloba.

A sm white flowering one.

I.Triloba was everywhere.

There was a large white flowering one without the flowers opened.

And a medium sized one with at the end of the walk.

The seedpod of this one, anyone have an id.

A small treefrog amongst the pods and the leaves to the left.

Another shot of the frog and the leaf.

This is the bud of the unknown white which was about to open. The morning glories seem to adapted to this area and it was a great morning.

Annette - very nice pictures!

Thanks it was great taking pics of them growing wild.

That first photo is my favorite.. great pictures Annette.

Awwww ... morning glories growing wild! Love it! :-)

Ahhhhh but the first one dont count as he is a wallaby, I couldnt resist throwing that pic in. He is a cutie.

Wallaby's aren't something that we see a lot of around here, lol. So thanks for throwing that one in.

Anne

Great pics Annette. Thanks for sharing

Jackie

LOL no I dont suppose that wallabies are something that you see everyday. They are so cuddly looking.

Hi annette,

Nice photos...

Here are some ID's...

This one here
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4869141
is
Ipomoea plebia
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/166047/

This one is an
Operculina(most likely O.brownii),but need to see if there are any wings on the pedicels
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4869153
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4869187
Operculina brownii in the PlantFiles...notice the winged pedicels
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/160663/

Merremia dissecta
The corolla on yours looks slightly yellow
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/annette68_1209259584_90.jpg
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/annette68_1209259627_600.jpg
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/annette68_1209259683_772.jpg
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/annette68_1209259740_85.jpg

Merremia dissecta in the PlantFiles
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/87166/

Hope that helps and looking forward to you locating some more(!)...more(!)...more(!)...

TTY,...

Ron




This message was edited Apr 27, 2008 3:35 AM

Thanks Ron,

My mission has just begun, going back to the town common as there were a few others that I wanted to photograph, I am also hitting some other areas around the town that will have them in the next few weeks, so will have lots more for you to id for me, I knew that they must be around the town, it was just a matter of tracking them down, I just didnt realize how many of them there were growing wild, it is great fun hunting them down.

Ron just a query on the plebeia id, I brought some seeds of plebeia and the seeds I collected of the small white flowering one were totally different, they were small and brown where the plebeia were black and differently shaped, am going to grow both out anyway to be positive.

annette - Can you post clear closeups of the seeds(?)...

Are you familiar with using the macro feature on your camera(?)...

I'd be very interested to see what the seeds look like...

TTY,...

Ron

Ron,

It will have to be tomorrow and yes I know macro and I have both seeds.It is nighttime here.

Cheers A.

Ok took a pic with a flash, maybe the top seeds are more immature, I dont know, they just look different and smaller to me.

Hi annette,

The seeds in the upper portion of the photo that you collected in the town common definitely look like Ipomoea pebia seeds to me similar to the I.plebia seeds that I posted in the PlantFiles here
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/RON_CONVOLVULACEAE_1209364242_984.jpg

I'm quite certain that the plant with the small white flowers and fuchsia stigma that you collected seeds from at your town common is Ipomoea plebia.

The seeds in the lower portion of your seed photo do look a bit larger,darker and seem to lack the slightly fuzzy softer outer coating usually present on the I.plebia seeds...

The larger,darker seeds in the forefront of the photo are not as clearly focused as the seeds towards the back of the photo and the difference in the angle of perspective may be resulting in some size misperception...although the darker seeds in the foreground may very well represent Ipomoea plebia with slightly darker and larger seedcoats...

The softer outer coating can often get removed from seeds that are jostled via frictional forces sufficient enough to remove the outer coating ..seeds from commercial sources often have the softer outer coatings (including soft hairs) rubbed off of them...

It will be interesting to see what the larger somewhat 'different looking' seeds that you received as Ipomoea plebia produce..

TTY,...

Ron

Thanks for the Australian stroll Annette.
Love the tiny frogs & Wallaby as well as the red & pink MGs.
It's great to see all the wild ones in their true home. Thanks.

Does the Wallaby have a natural predator? Do they browse garden plants like we have issues with deer here in the States?

Joseph

The wallaby doesnt have a natural predator.

They dont tend to go in yards in towns and eat plants, not saying that they dont eat crops out in the outback, they tend to eat grass and eat the grass that is for livestock, now that is the kangaroo, a wallaby is a smaller one.

Here is a little info on them, they are cute and dont tend to attack humans, they are a shy marsupial.
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/wallabies.htm

Cheers A.