The Grove is a natural bioregion the mountain catchment of Kedron Brook (and Cedar Creek) nestled within the D’Aguilar Range. It is visible ‘from space’ – trying looking on Google read more

Kedron Brook history

{accordion}Bandicoots::

||||Bats & flying foxes::

||||Bees::

||||Beetles and bugs::

||||Centipedes and Millipedes::

• Centipedes Bite causes severe pain which may last for several days. No deaths recorded
• Pill Millipedes Millipedes are favorite food of funnel-web spiders.

||||Cicadas::

||||Dingoes::

||||Dragons::

Tommy Round-head Nobbi Dragon Southern Angle-headed Dragon Eastern Water Dragon Common Bearded Dragon

||||Dragonflies and damselflies::

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Balance Between Food Security & Natural Species

As Peak Oil and Climate Change create urgent needs to establish local food growing in The Grove the focus shifts from regenerating bush with native read more

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Freshwater turtles::

Eastern Long-necked Turtle Broad-shelled River Turtle Saw-shelled Turtle Brisbane Short-necked Turtle

||||Frogs and Toads::

• Frogs

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• Which local trees are food-bearing?

• Identified landscape trees that must be retained are at:

• • 51 Ross Rd (hoop pines silky oaks fig trees foambark)
  • 458 Levitt Rd (bunya pine)
  • 433 Levitt Rd (crows ash)
  • 298 Levitt Rd (hoop pines)
  • 48 McGinn Rd (hoop pines bunya pine silky oak fig trees).
  • The forests in The Grove are all part of Brisbane Forest Park. The forest to the north of Samford Rd is Samford State Forest. The forest at the western end of Upper Kedron is part of Enoggera State Forest.

  These forests consist of three types of forest:

  • Moist and wet sclerophyll forest and gully rainforest – extensive through the Samford State Forest and the Enoggera State Forest
  • Dry rainforest – two small areas up near the Camp Mountain Lookout Rd off Mt Nebo Rd
  • Wet rainforest  – none in The Grove but a large patch just to the left of Mt Nebo Rd before Jolley’s Lookout

  {accordion}Moist and wet sclerophyll forest and gully rainforest ::

  Trees

  • pink bloodwood (Corymbia intermedia)
  • yellow stringybark (Eucalyptus acemenoides)
  • grey gum (Eucalyptus biturbinata)
  • tallowwood (Eucalyptus microcorys)
  • grey gum (Eucaluptus propinqua)
  • Sydney blue gum (Eucalyptus saligna)
  • grey ironbark (Eucalyptus siderophloia)
  • brush box (Lophostemon confertus)

  Understorey

  • native ginger (Alpinia caerulea)
  • gristle fern (Blechnum cartilagineaum)
  • tree fern (Cyathea leichhardtiana)
  • native daphne (Pittosporum undulatum)
  • celerywood (Polyscias elegans)
  • brown malletwood (Rhodamnia rubescens)
  • native grape (Cissus spp.)
  • palm lilies (Cordyline spp.)
  • false bracken fern (Calochlaena dubia)
  • guioa (Guioa semiglauca)
  • native raspberry (Rubus spp.)
  • barbed wire vine (Smilax australis)
  • scentless rosewood (Synoum glandulosum)
  • piccabeen palm (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana)

  ||||Dry rainforest::

  Trees

  • hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii)
  • brown pearwood (Amorphospermum antilogum)
  • white booyong (Argyrodendron trifoliolatum)
  • python tree (Austramyrtus bidwillii)
  • lacebark tree (Brachychiton discolor)
  • prickly pine (Bursaria incana)
  • native cascarilla (Croton insularis)
  • shining-leaved stinging tree (Dendrocnide phoinophylla)
  • native ebony (Diospyros spp.)
  • hauer (Dissiliaria baloghioides)
  • yellow tulip (Drypetes deplanchei)
  • white tamarind (Elattostachys xylocarpa)
  • scrub poison tree (Excoecaria dallachyana)
  • crow’s ash (Flindersia australis)
  • borad-leaved leopard tree (Flindersia collina)
  • native olive (Olea paniculata)
  • crow’s apple (Owenia venosa)
  • lignum-vitae (Premna lignum-vitae)
  • coogera (Arytera spp.)

  Understorey

  • native holly (Alchornea ilicifolia)
  • (Asplenium attenuatum)
  • blackcurrent bush (Carissa ovata)
  • native grape vine (Cissus antartica)
  • orange thorn (Citriobatus pauciflorus)
  • scrambling caper (Capparis sarmentosa)
  • zig zag vine (Melodorum leichhardtii)
  • cockspur (Maclura cochinchinensis)
  • silk pods (Parsonsia spp.)

  ||||Wet rainforest::

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A lot of shale!

Kedron Brook and Cedar Creek catchments – how are they managed?

 

 To save native animals wounded on the roads phone 1300 ANIMAL = 1300 264 625

The Grove is ringed on three sides by hills to the east south west and north-west.

The most significant peak is Camp Mountain (414 metres) at the north-western most point of The Grove.

Enoggera Hill (UBD read more