u need to go and take photos of 4 species and do the remaining assignment which is briefed in the file attached
Revise the Lecture Materials for Native Plant Families. Attend the Collaborate Ultra tutorial sessions in Weeks 11 and 12 to learn how to use the Australia-wide Eucalyptus ID Key (Links to an external site.) or the more specific Flora of Victoria Eucalyptus ID Key (Links to an external site.) in Keybase. You should already be familiar with Keybase's Angiosperm Key (Links to an external site.) from a previous tutorial. In these sessions, guidance will also be provided on how to take good photographs of botanical spotting characteristics with your smartphone camera. In your own time, locate FOUR NATIVE plant species in your neighbourhood. They must be representative species of plants from the following Families: Myrtaceae, Mimosaceae (Fabaceae), Proteaceae, Fabaceae, Rutaceae, Lamiaceae, and Solanaceae. These plants must currently be in flower. Additionally, for safety reasons, the leaves and flowers must be easily accessible without the use of a ladder. Ideally, you should already know which families/genera they belong to. One of these plants must belong to the genus Eucalyptus. Please note that there are a number of tree species formerly of this genus growing in the suburbs that have been reclassified into the genus Corymbia. Please do not select these, as they will not key out properly in the Eucalyptus ID key. You may have a maximum of 2 Eucalpytus species in your photo collection. As most of you will be using your smartphone camera, for the non-Eucalyptus species, please select plants with large flowers/ovaries. Plants with developing fruits would be ideal, as the number of locules may be determined more easily, and also photographed. Key out these species using either Keybase's Angiosperm Key or the Eucalyptus Key. As Keybase will run from your smartphone, you may be able to perform an on-site identification. Once you have obtained a positive ID, save the steps in the Key as demonstrated in the Collaborate Ultra tutorials (refer to recordings of the sessions if unsure). While performing the on-site ID, please take photos of the relevant botanical spotting characteristics, as illustrations for each step in your saved key. Whenever possible, please indicate the scale of the feature you're photographing, either by placing a small ruler, or a familiar object e.g. a 5-cent coin next to it (this coin has a diameter of roughly 20 mm [19.41 mm according to Wikipedia] ). For smaller features of flowers and developing fruits, it may be worthwhile to remove a small number of flowers/fruits and take them home, where you can photograph them from various angles, and also with your phone/camera mounted in a stable position (useful if your phone/camera does not have an image stabiliser). Please remember to include a scale (see above) for each photo. Perform minor edits on your photos, eg brightness&contrast and cropping either in-phone, or with photo editing software. Please do not edit the photos excessively- they must look natural, and as close to the original source of the image, ie the plant. Re-take photos as necessary, as it's often easier to take the photo again rather than trying to fix a badly-taken photo. If the first batch of photos were bad, please REFLECT on why they were not up to standard, (eg was the angle poor? lighting was bad? windy? unsteady hands? poor specimen? ) and try to improve the next batch. Combine the saved ID steps from Keybase for each species and the edited photos into a single document. If a photo cannot be taken for a particular step in the key, please state the reason(s) why you have not included a photo. In some cases, the same photo may be used for several steps of the key, as it shows more than one spotting characteristic. Please refer to the recording of the Collaborate Ultra sessions if unsure of how to do this. Save your report as a PDF file to preserve its formatting, and submit to Canvas by the due date.