Save a Species Walk
Save a Species Walk is an event in New South Wales in Australia focused on preservation of rare and endangered plants.
Each event includes nominating specific plants.
It involves a walk to raise money for seeds to be prepared and stored at the Australian PlantBank at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.
Plants by year
The plants identified below are from the Royal Botanic Garden website2014
- needle-leaved geebung Persoonia acerosa
- glandular pink-bell Tetratheca glandulosaOlearia cordata
- ''Zieria involucrata''
2015
- thick leaf star hair Astrotricha crassifolia
- Budawangs cliff heath Epacris gnidioides
- white flowered wax plant Cynanchum elegans
- buttercup doubletail orchid Diuris aequalis
- sparse heath Epacris sparsa
- Fletchers drumsticks Isopogon fletcheri
- Evans sedge Lepidosperma evansianum
- Woronora beard heath Leucopogon exolasius
- dwarf mountain pine Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii
- velvet zieria Zieria murphyi
- black hooded sun orchid Thelymitra atronitida
- villous mint bush Prostanthera densaEuphrasia bowdeniae
- Grevillea parviflora subsp. supplicans
- Hibbertia stricta subsp. furcatula
2016
- narrow-leaved bertya Bertya ingramii
- four-tailed grevillea Grevillea quadricauda
- bordered guinea flower Hibbertia marginata
- Dorrigo waratah Alloxylon pinnatum
- tall knotweed Persicaria elatior
- Moonee Quassia Quassia sp. Mooney Creek
- trailing monotoca Monotoca rotundifolia
- creeping hop-bush Dodonaea procumbens
- Suggan Buggan mallee Eucalyptus saxatilis
- Bega wattle Acacia georgensis
- musty leek orchid ''Prasophyllum pallens''