Plant Identification Workshop, Dutton Park, Sunday 11th October 2026

MEET AT: ‘The Bower’, 25A Waterview Terrace, Dutton Park.

REGISTRATION: Register via the website or by email to excursion@qnc.org.au. Please include name and contact details of all attendees, mobile phone and email address. Guests are welcome. Please Note: Maximum number of participants is 20, so register early.

DETAILS: This is a hands-on workshop is for those members who are new to, or uncertain about, plant identification and wish to learn how to go about it. It will include some basic botany and will help participants understand and use various resources for plant identification, including observation tools, the knowledge of other QNat members, Mangroves to Mountains, and simple keys. It will not include iNaturalist, except in passing, as it was covered in a previous workshop. Disclaimer: The workshop leaders are not professional botanists but enthusiastic, relatively experienced amateurs!

THE PARK: Dutton Park has a good variety of gum trees as well as tea trees, some wattles and figs, plus a maturing rainforest revegetation site and a butterfly and bushfood wetland.

TIMETABLE:

8.15: Arrive, chat and find a seat.

8.30: Introduction, reasons for identifying plants, plant families

9.00: Walk through Dutton Park to observe a range of plants, collect specimens and photographs for identification.

10.30: Morning tea

10.45: Demonstration of how to use the various approaches to plant identification

11.15: Participants work in small groups, using the various approaches, to identify plants, assisted by the workshop leaders.

12.15: Group discussion and final questions

12.45: Lunch

1.30: (Optional) Go back into the park to put new skills to the test!

3.00: Finish

AMENITIES: The Bower has toilets, a kitchen, and tables and chairs. The club will provide tea and coffee.

DIRECTIONS: By car – Head west along Gladstone Rd from Annerley Road, turn left into TJ Doyle Drive at the lights opposite the high school and proceed down and around to the river where there is a parking area on the right. Walk back up the path into Waterview Terrace on the left. The Bower is the first building on the right heading up the hill. Please Note: If you are using a directions app, put TJ Doyle Drive in, not Waterview Ter, as there is very little parking in Waterview Ter and it is a dead end street.

By public transport – The 196 bus runs along Gladstone Rd and many buses to and from UQ stop in the park (but not the new M2 electric bus).  Dutton Park train station is opposite the other end of the park. Use the journey planner on the Translink website.