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The plums in the city gardens have just started to ripen up, and I'm seeing kererū more often in the neighbourhood. Coincidence? I don't think so.

some query about this earlier (http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/2632315 ); periodic wet turf with exotic rushes; only couple of flowers seen

Is this squalida?

Growing in roadside gravel with T. striatum, T dubium, T. tormentosum, T. suffocatum, T. glomeratum, T. arvense

Common in clearings in montane silver beech

Not too sure about this one

2023 Strannik Auckland Island Expedition

dry plains grassland; with Muehlenbeckia axillaris

The liverwort

Ranunculus cheesemanii, flowering plants growing in an alpine bog

This is what I think it is mainly by a process of eliminating everything else Note: the long hairs fringing the edge of the leaves

Ranunculus, unidentified species with large flowers, glabrous, growing in alpine bog,

I am calling this Ranunculus cheesemanii because I have not got any better ideas

Growing on gorse. Large proportion of the low growing Kunzea in vicinity also have the mistletoe. Amongst north facing bluffs at 580m altitude

a small patch growing beside the track in short grass.

I think, wrong time of year but that might be explained by the overly wet summer: underwater until recently

Epiphyte on Carmichaelia australis in Hoheria glabra / Chionochloa pallens treeland on hillslope.

Growing on a short limestone ledge close to the DOC sign at the entrance to Sawcut Gorge reserve.

roadside

Pine forest

Saxicolous on boundary wall of Auckland Zoo, Western Springs, Auckland 1022.

Same location as Melissa'a record:

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/166018511

Local on subalpine flat scree fields in alpine. Terete branches.

Over a dozen plants seen across many trees with little searching effort. Good population