Wild Things of Greater Melbourne : Tutorial 4 Task: You are in the Werribee Gorge State Park and you find a shrub with grey-green leaves and masses of small, red, fleshy fruits at the ends of the branches. Find out what it is.

• Using the Plants of Greater Melbourne : High-Res. Land Use program, find the Werribee Gorge State Park on a high-resolution map tile from the Melbourne area

• Select a number of grids which cover the area • Summarize all the data from the grids into a species list • Using the Full Filters option select the filter characters for shrubs and fleshy fruits • Run the Apply Filters option to find all fleshy-fruited shrubs in the Werribee Gorge State Park • Scroll through the filtered list, examining the pictures and descriptions as you go, to find the best match to the plant

you have seen • Print a picture and description of the plant you have chosen

The products of this task should be:

• A printed page with an image and description of the shrub Rhagodia parabolica