NZ Field trips - October

[David Lyttle]

Hi Stephen.

I wes a little casual in my naming of the Apium. The New Zealand plant is known as  Apium prostratum subsp. prostratum var. filiforme> so the short answer to your question is that there is no difference. The same variety occurs in Eastern Australia so var prostratum may occur there as well. I do not know. There is a second New Zealand subspecies Apium prostratum subsp. denticulatum that occurs on the Chatham and Antipodes Islands.

As for Lepidium oleraceumthere is a small possibility that I could obtain some seed from my DOC contacts but this may be difficult as it is a protected plant.

Cliff,

I was going to apologise to you as I did not show any pictures of buttercups in my posting but then realised that Myosurus is a buttercup. Does it satisfy your Ranuculophilia?

[ranunculus]

Barely, David, barely!  LOL.
I must admit I've never encountered it before.   

[Anthony Darby]

Amazing plants.

[Stephenb]

Hi Stephen.

I wes a little casual in my naming of the Apium. The New Zealand plant is known as  Apium prostratum subsp. prostratum var. filiforme> so the short answer to your question is that there is no difference. The same variety occurs in Eastern Australia so var prostratum may occur there as well. I do not know. There is a second New Zealand subspecies Apium prostratum subsp. denticulatum that occurs on the Chatham and Antipodes Islands.

As for Lepidium oleraceumthere is a small possibility that I could obtain some seed from my DOC contacts but this may be difficult as it is a protected plant.

Thanks! I have a slide of a similar plant growing on a rocky shoreline on South Island under the name filiforme...

Didn't realise that oleraceum was now protected! I read in Crowe's book on edible plants of New Zealand that it was declining due to decreases in grazing pressure...

[Hoy]

I have to echo Anthony: Amazing plants!. For example the Myosurus (M. minimus) that grows here is an annual and quite different.