beside Putiki Drive, true left side of Whanganui River, Wanganui City
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-39.9408 175.055
Verbatim locality:
beside Putiki Drive, true left side of Whanganui River, Wanganui City
Verbatim collector:
Colin Ogle
Standardised collector:
Colin C. Ogle
Verbatim date:
11 August 2005
Start date:
2005-08-11
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Whanganui Iwi / Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi
Whanganui Land Settlement (Lower Whanganui)
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R22 856 385 (WGS84 -39.940758 175.054944)
Altitudes:
from 8m
Habitat:
Growing on near-vertical cliff beside Putiki Drive. Growing on west aspect, very sunny and dry; substrate a cemented gravel/clay - probably original river-cliff of the river before road construction, some 15 m tall.
Notes:
Plant Register ID: 2004/468This cactus growing from 3 m above road level to 10 m above road - patch some 2-4 m wide. Houses at top of the cliff - probably the cactus is an escape or discard from there. Other vegetation with the cactus is of short stature and sparse - Ehrharta erecta, Crassula multicava, Vinca major, sparse clumps of 1-2 m Lycium ferrocissimum.Inclusion of 3 fruit. They broke off the small paddle when it hit the road from about 5 m up a steep bank.