Botany Group
Chairperson Karen Muscat

The Botany Group meets on the third Thursday of each month at the FNCV's meeting rooms and has a group excursion the following weekend. The group has approximately ninety members with interests ranging from invasive plants, marine algae, fungi, threatened species, bryophytes, ferns and flowering plants.

You can download reports of previous field trips and presentations here:
Vegetation Quality Assessment using the Habitat Hectares Method - Sheri McFarlane 17th June
Principles for the Maintenance of Native Grassland Species Diversity on Private Land - Dr Josh Dorrough 21st April
Revegetation vs Indigenous gardening - Jeff Yugovic 16th February 2006
Flowering Patterns in melliferous (nectar producing) eucalypts - M. Birtchnell

Dianella amoena. Picture by Ivan margitta

Geranium potentilloides. Picture by Ivan margitta

Linum marginale. Picture by Ivan margitta

Tricoryne elatior. Picture by Ivan margitta