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Eco-Annandale 2009
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What happened to Annandale's Local Provenance Plants

During the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Turpentine-Ironbark Forests which covered the Inner West, of Sydney, were cut down for their valuable timber. The remaining local provenance vegetation would have been eliminated by farming and subsequently by residential development.

Species List

This list of Local Provenance Plant Species, that is plants that would have been endemic in the area, is based on a list compiled by Catherine Rowland.

Sourcing Local Provenance Plants

While the Rozelle Bay Nursery does not sell plants, you can buy local provenance species at from Cornucopia Nursery, Marrickville Community Nursery and Strathfield Council Native Nursery.

Local Provenance Plants for Sydney's Inner West

Reintroduction of Local Provenance Vegetation to Annandale

Local Provenance Plants are those that have naturally evolved to suit the climatic, light and soil conditions of an area.

The Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery collects seeds and cuttings from the closest remaining bushland, to propagate and reintroduce Local Provenance Plants to the area. The reintroduction of Local Provenance Plants has been extremely sucessful. As you walk around Annandale's public spaces, you will notice a diverse range of plants thriving and providing habitat to butterflies, dragonflies, birds, lizards and frogs.

Online Resources and References

Plant identification resources include:

Bibliography

The information in the Inner West Species list has been compiled from a number of sources.

Primarily from: Mathew Dick, Native Plants of Inner Western Sydney, 1980, Leichhardt Association.
With contributions from:
- Les Robinson, Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, 2nd. Ed., 1994, Kangaroo Press
- Doug Benson & Jocelyn Howell, Taken for Granted. The bushland of Sydney and its suburbs. 1990, Kangaroo Press
- Sainty et al., Burnum Burnum's Wildthings, 2000, Sainty & assoc.
- Natural Heritage of Iron Cove pamphlet, Greening Australia
- Species list developed by Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Trust
- Bronwyn Englaro
- Cas Liber of the Society of Australian Native Plants
- Peter Jensen of Greening Australia
- David Eckstein of Leichhardt Council
- NSW Rural Fire Service publication 'Fireguard 4- Trees & Fire Resistance'
- Baulkham Hills Rural Fire Service publication 'Fire Resistant Native Plants'.

This page www.ramin.com.au/annandale/veg-bib.shtml last updated 6 August 2009