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Teresa wrote:

10 May 2025

yes, you are finding the tiny things, great

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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

26 Jan 2025

Compare also with Backhousia subargentea (synonym: Choricarpia subargentea) .
Has stamens tomentose .

Also growing in the botanic gardens there .

Whereas Backhousia leptopetala has stamens glabrous (hairless) .

In these photographs so far i could not quite make out whether these stamens have hairs on them or not .

More possible candidate species especially in this Myrtaceae botanical family and a few more botanical families i suggest as candidates such as Cunoniaceae eg. Callicoma serratifolia .
To check .

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Mike wrote:

26 Jan 2025

Backhousia leptopetala is planted in Sections 125 and 65 NSW Rainforest. https://www.anbg.gov.au/fap/#/index

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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

26 Jan 2025

I guess from experience memories this possible candidate species ... :

Thank you Rosemary Purdie ( @RWPurdie ) for the experienced clear-thinking comment above just now, bringing me to look at this sighting just now .

Please carefully check out the flowers of :
*Backhousia leptopetala* (synonym: *Choricarpia leptopetala* ) – NatureMapr species page : Backhousia leptopetala .
Eg. @plants sighting : Backhousia leptopetala (Brush Turpentine) in Stanwell Park .

And let's check the botanic gardens plantings in the field and
in the gardens inventory if this species or a related species has been planted and grows as a tree here above this spot ?

Ref' to start with (in brief, without full citation):

• Flora of NSW online PlantNet :
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Backhousia~leptopetala

• Australian Plant Image Index photographs:
https://anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apiiName2?name=Backhousia+leptopetala
.

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RWPurdie wrote:

26 Jan 2025

My guess is that the photo is of about seven 'spent' flowers that have fallen from a tree, the base of each flower (we're looking at them side-on) showing 2-3 yellowish sepals and bundles of purplish-brown stamens that have been caught up with each other to the form the single 'mass'. The anthers are very small but visible in a couple of the photos.

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