Australasian Native Orchid Society (Victorian Group): orchid enthusiasts dedicated to cultivation, conservation & scientific study of native orchids
Victoria, Australia
Joined April 2012
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ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
Congrats @BrendanJanissen (@RMIT), recipient of the 2022 #AusJBotany Student Prize!
His research aimed to improve poor germination in vitro of the endangered orchid Caladenia robinsonii, and to predict the potential impacts of climate change.
#OpenAccess
publish.csiro.au/bt/BT21085
ALT Brendan Janissen kneels in a field inspecting flora. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and a high-viz vest.
ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
Yet another Threatened species is doing well on the Gunbower Forest Ramsar floodplain.
The floodplain rustyhood is in the orchid family and is found in only a handful of places in Australia.
In 2020 we recorded 22 plants. Last year there were 81. This year there are 89.
ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
Just Published:
Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria describes the 447 species of native orchids found in Victoria. With 460+ colour photos of wild orchids and maps for almost all species, this guide will delight and inspire anyone interested in orchids.
publish.csiro.au/book/8092/
ALT Cover of 'Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria', featuring a variety of striking and colourful orchid flowers.
ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
It’s not often you get the chance to ⬆️ the size of a threatened species’ population in 1 month, let alone the population of 3 threatened species. Yet this is what the wild #orchids project achieved in July this year. #SavingOurSpecies
bit.ly/3XzknWH
📸 Alex Pike, DPE
ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
For those of you into the dark arts of sun orchid taxonomy, enjoy the inner workings of the appropriately named Mauve-tufted Sun-orchid (Thelymitra malvina) flower. Love that translucent blue column as well... Just one of the orchids seen today near the bay in the 2nd picture.
Coming up:
Main meeting: Search for the Queen of Sheba (WA)
Visit Crib Point & Stony Point and Anglesea
Monitor orchids in the High Country, and in the Riverina NSW
Epiphyte Study Group: Sarcochilus
Working bees west of Melbourne
Cultivation-Propagation Group
We regularly carry out orchid surveys, often in conjunction with government, management and conservation organisations. In this image, the conservation group was at Spring Gully Reservoir (Bendigo), supporting @ColibanWater undertaking an orchid survey within the catchment
ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
Hands up if you love orchids! 😍
If you've got a camera or a smartphone, you can contribute to orchid research. 🔎
Our research scientist Heidi Zimmer shares 5 steps to getting started as an orchid hunter: blog.csiro.au/orchid-hunting…
📷 | Rodger Parker via iNaturalist
ALT A white and red orchid flower with two stamen sticking straight up in the air
ANOS Victoria crossed the border into NSW to help plant 6000 orchids
smh.com.au/environment/conse…
As part of our native orchid conservation activities, we're searching for endangered spider orchids this coming weekend in @TaungurungC country.
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Native Orchid Show
Orchid displays and sales.
Art, Photography, Books
Information about our activities
24-25 September 2022
9am-4pm
Mt Waverley Community Centre
This month:
Main meeting (past): Talk - Kangaroo Island
Native Orchid Show 24-25 September
Four search days for endangered orchids in central/western Vic
Visit orchids around Maldon
Orchid working bees west of Melbourne
Cultivation-Propagation Group
Epiphyte Study Group
ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
Time for the donkey orchids to glitter. This is the Leopard Orchid (Diuris pardina) in remnant bush 22 km east of the Melbourne CBD.
Plant diversity will persist, but it needs a helping hand...
#orchids #conservation
Coming up:
Main meeting: AGM and Orchids of Macarthur NSW
Trips to Broadford and Enfield
Orchid working bees west of Melbourne
Monitor and search near St Arnaud
Orchid survey new Bush Heritage property @BushHeritageAus
Cultivation-Propagation Group
Epiphyte Study Group
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VicFlora, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria website, has been updated, making it easier to identify native plants and mosses found throughout Victoria.
vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au
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ANOS Victorian Group retweeted
For those who are not native orchid dilettantes, the delight in finding this slug on a leaf (otherwise known as Corybas acontiflorus) may pass you by. Upper Beaconsfield way...
A video featuring some autumn flowering orchids of the Beechworth goldfields
youtu.be/LqzMgDvQF8Y
This month's agenda:
Main meeting: Orchid pollination
Trips to Anglesea and Brisbane Ranges to visit autumn orchids
Continued planning reintroductions of at-risk species at multiple sites
Working bees west of Melbourne
Cultivation-Propagation Group
Epiphyte Study Group
This is a presentation about a project to prevent the extinction of seven species of fire-affected orchids from East Gippsland after the 2019-2020 fires.
youtu.be/5xh0d9nIFY4
