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Gavin Phillips

@SeedyGav

Eucalypt, orchid & threatened species botanist, former professional seed hunter and guru for all things rare & threatened in NSW. All views here my own opinion.

Wollongong, New South Wales Katılım Temmuz 2016
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Gavin Phillips@SeedyGav·
What's this? Me collecting seeds again? Well, if I'm out surveying rare #eucalypts & find a few that I know have never been seedbanked, why not I say! A good haul of Eucalyptus dealbata subsp aperticola from Wollemi NP will be on its way to #PlantBank at the @AustralianBG soon!
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#QandA your question tonight is the wrong question. It should be "are todays kids going to be as well off financially as their parents when they're their parents age." That addresses the fact that future opportunities are likely not going to be equitable given current debt levels
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Watching the peloton crest the now notorious Ramah Av climb in the Men's Road Race in the #uciworldchampionships. Such a great atmosphere to share with my son - as a local this is a great event to see!
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This has to be the most #stylish boulder I have ever seen. Who ever knew a bright pink hairdo would look so good in the middle of Munghorn Gap NR? Jokes aside though, that's the most concentrated patch of Stylidium I think I've laid eyes on. #Nature is so cool. #biodiversity
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@JaneDegabriel @DeanNicolle1 @EucalyptAus No leaf samples yet, though I am getting fresh herbarium specimens from all sites where I can access material. I'd love to consider a genetic analysis for this species group if I get the chance to do it.
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Gavin Phillips@SeedyGav·
Let's play pick the type locality! These are all variations in fruit of the vulnerable #Eucalyptus cannonii (sometimes considered a subsp. of E. macrorhyncha) which I'm currently studying across its range. Certainly some intriguing findings so far.... #conservation #botany
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Gavin Phillips@SeedyGav·
@DeanNicolle1 @EucalyptAus I think you're right - and consider a reliance on ID from fruit, especially old tree-fallen material has resulted in mis-IDs in a few places. I have evidence of what you suggest on a single branch at several sites now too.
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Gavin Phillips@SeedyGav·
@phill_mckenna I'm mostly looking at E. cannonii (or macrorhyncha subsp cannonii if you like) in order to determine the amount of morphological variation within and among populations and post-fire and -drought responses in the species. Fun work if you're into Eucs.
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Gavin Phillips@SeedyGav·
@T_Le_Breton Yep - but that record appears to be a mis-ID. There's plenty of P. graniticola and I'm pretty certain that's what the specimen at MEL will be too.
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Boy, it feels like it's been a while since I went bush! A great day today hunting threatened Pomaderris up Wingen Maid NR near Scone - the views from the top were worth the steep hike up! I could get used to this again..... #SavingOurSpecies #conservation #fieldwork
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Fun memories out in the Blue Mountains and Budawangs collecting for this project! It's great to see plants going into the garden now too & I may miss the #fieldwork for #PlantBank just a little after seeing this!
Australian Seed Bank Partnership@SeedPartnership

To secure the iconic Pink Flannel Flower 🌷 under the #RareBloomProject, the @AustralianBG banked a whopping half a million seeds! They also completed germination testing and grew plants that are now thriving in a living collection. #BotanicByAirwick @WWF_Australia 📸 @seedygav

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Gavin Phillips@SeedyGav·
@aussie_flora Hey Jason, I know where plenty of wild ones are but obviously they're not availble being a threatened species recovering post-fire in the NP. I'm not sure about sourcing them commercially - they're pretty but they're also spiny (think G. juniperina).
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@7Cricket That's not out and a terrible decision. Forget this 'fingers under the ball' garbage - if he's another foot of the ground, he's dropping it as it blows through his finger tips.
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OUT ☝️ A diving catch from Fawad Ahmed - just! - to dismiss Usman Khawaja #BBL11
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A fitting way to end my current tenure at #PlantBank - watching storm clouds roll in over the Gibraltar Range having finished up bagging 7 species for post-fire #conservation projects. It's been wild & I've got some incredible memories. Now, time to head home one last time.
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