Plants of Ash Island
Historical records tell us more than 300 plant species are indigenous to Ash Island. This working catalogue holds 84 of them: the plants we know, grow and put back into the wetlands, searchable by scientific, common, Katang and Worimi names.
“Plants of Ash Island – compiled by Elizabeth Burton”
“Aboriginal names provided by Carol Ridgeway-Bissett of the Maaiangal Aboriginal Heritage Inc.”
“Names in the Katang language except for those marked ** which are in the Worimi language.”
Aboriginal plant names are reproduced exactly as published. On each card below, the name's language is labelled Katang or Worimi following that convention.
The thread that makes this list special: Helena Scott's Botany of Ash Island (1862), an authoritative first-hand record of the island's plants, guides our current revegetation. That story is here.
Explore the catalogue
Showing all 84 species in the catalogue
The explorer needs JavaScript to search and filter. The full catalogue is also in our library as a PDF: Ash Island plant species list.
Where the plants go
Everything in this catalogue exists to go back into the ground.
Tube stock is propagated from seeds and cuttings collected on Ash Island and propagated in the nursery in the Hunter Local Land Services compound. They may be bought from specialist nurseries such as TIN Trees In Newcastle.
During the week and sometimes at community events planting will replace or extend the existing plantings to maintain the vegetation diversity and amount of cover.
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