These are great names for this beautiful plant. The flowers are not really aromatic but I'll see if I can find some of our beautiful scented natives for you.
You have snotty gobbles and I had the spittle bugs on my grevillia. Looked just like lumps of white spit all over the tree. The Melaleuca linaniifolia are in full bloom at the moment. Really stunning. I went to Pillar Valley the other day just to see them then onto Minnie to eat the salad sandwich I had bought from Hanks. It was wrapped up in a paper bag. I turned for 2 seconds to admire the ocean and the seagulls ate my whole sandwich in the blink of an eye. The wildlife has no morals lol. Melaleuca are one of my favourite natives. Looking forward to the Christmas bells flowering later. Enjoyed the video, thanks.
@@davidt5776 there is also far more life in the soil than above it. I'm not sure how far underground I can delve with my current film set up. I might manage to explore the world of termites or venture into my worm farm but as for the rest of it, it will remain a mystery to me for now.
It’s interesting how names of plants, trees etc are not just Latin descriptors, they are names of people, places, Latin descriptions etc etc. The Geebung is persoonia meaning Australian undergrowth tree and Stradbroke is a place is England . They are also of the protea I family which includes plants from Africa, and also banksias, macadamias and geebungs from Australia. What a wonderful world we live in,
Where is your backyard? If it is in NSW there is a good chance that the flowers of your geebungs are visited by the rare Fu Manchu bee, Leioproctus (Filiglossa) filamentosa in the family Colletidae. The bee was first described back in the 1950's by the famous naturalist, Tarlton Rayment, but wasn't seen for decades because people thought it depended on eucalypts instead of geebungs. It's a tiny bee (
@@peterbernhardt5169 Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating information! My backyard is in the Clarence Valley in northern NSW, so I will definitely keep a much closer eye on the Geebung flowers. I hadn’t heard of the Fu Manchu bee before, but I’m really interested in native bees, so I’ll be on the lookout for this tiny, moustached visitor!
I thought Geebung was a great name until I heard Snotty Gobbles. Delightful. Beautiful blossom. I bet they smell heavenly.
These are great names for this beautiful plant. The flowers are not really aromatic but I'll see if I can find some of our beautiful scented natives for you.
You have snotty gobbles and I had the spittle bugs on my grevillia. Looked just like lumps of white spit all over the tree.
The Melaleuca linaniifolia are in full bloom at the moment. Really stunning. I went to Pillar Valley the other day just to see them then onto Minnie to eat the salad sandwich I had bought from Hanks. It was wrapped up in a paper bag. I turned for 2 seconds to admire the ocean and the seagulls ate my whole sandwich in the blink of an eye. The wildlife has no morals lol.
Melaleuca are one of my favourite natives. Looking forward to the Christmas bells flowering later.
Enjoyed the video, thanks.
@@Soffity 🤣😂
It is amazing to see the diversity of insects and wildlife is our own back yard
@@davidt5776 the closer I look, the more diversity I discover.
@@KathrynKermode And when you go underground, it is another world again. With the bugs and microbes.
@@davidt5776 there is also far more life in the soil than above it. I'm not sure how far underground I can delve with my current film set up. I might manage to explore the world of termites or venture into my worm farm but as for the rest of it, it will remain a mystery to me for now.
It’s interesting how names of plants, trees etc are not just Latin descriptors, they are names of people, places, Latin descriptions etc etc. The Geebung is persoonia meaning Australian undergrowth tree and Stradbroke is a place is England . They are also of the protea I family which includes plants from Africa, and also banksias, macadamias and geebungs from Australia. What a wonderful world we live in,
@@Soffity Stradbrokensis refers to Stradbroke Island where the first specimen was collected in 1910.
@@KathrynKermode yes, I presumed Stradbroke Island was named after the place in England. Thanks for the info,
Where is your backyard? If it is in NSW there is a good chance that the flowers of your geebungs are visited by the rare Fu Manchu bee, Leioproctus (Filiglossa) filamentosa in the family Colletidae. The bee was first described back in the 1950's by the famous naturalist, Tarlton Rayment, but wasn't seen for decades because people thought it depended on eucalypts instead of geebungs. It's a tiny bee (
@@peterbernhardt5169 Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating information! My backyard is in the Clarence Valley in northern NSW, so I will definitely keep a much closer eye on the Geebung flowers. I hadn’t heard of the Fu Manchu bee before, but I’m really interested in native bees, so I’ll be on the lookout for this tiny, moustached visitor!
That’s really interesting, thanks for your insight, I live about an hour away from Kathryn so will be on the look out,
Think you have the only video about this on RUclips
@@foamdinner4340 I’d be interested to see what eats the fruits in different areas.