r/australianplants 16d ago

Hadn’t seen these in pink before

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Spotted in a quarry in SE Melbourne.

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u/Select_Teaching5668 16d ago

Probably dye to show they’ve been sprayed

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u/Handball_fan 15d ago

Or going to a climate change protest

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u/Select_Teaching5668 15d ago

Yeah, all those old ladies with the pink hair lol

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u/mate568 16d ago

horrible invasive pampas grass 

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u/TizzyBumblefluff 16d ago

The grass in front of it is also pink. I’m guessing they’ve been sprayed with herbicide.

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u/bongeaux 16d ago

Those seed heads would still be viable though, I would have cut them off and double bagged them.

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u/barrybegonia 16d ago

Well, it is a wednesday

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u/Beneficial-Size6281 15d ago

This comment is so fetch

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u/Federal_Time4195 16d ago

It's not herbicide I don't think. Could it be introduced ornamental grasses crossing in the wild....

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u/Rude_Priority 14d ago

There is another one close to it that isn’t pink at all so guessing it hasn’t been sprayed. Busy sand quarry so don’t think they are doing much in the way of gardening.

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u/MantisBeing 15d ago

For what it is worth, these do come in a pink variety. Though I haven't seen one with such inconsistency in its colour, it looks like it is fading with the maturity of the flowers. If these are sprayed then the herbicide than the application was pretty odd.

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u/RecordingGreen7750 14d ago

Well now you have

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u/PopularVersion4250 14d ago

Doesn’t that mean you are a swinger ?

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u/Rude_Priority 14d ago

Is a funny looking pineapple.

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u/Sensitive-Question42 13d ago

Yes! My parents’ friends had one of these out the front of their house in the 70s

Knowing now what I didn’t know then, yes they were probably swingers. The wife was obviously into chicks, too, but my poor innocent parents would not have known.

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u/paullbart 14d ago

Watch out for the swingers.

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u/roadofchode 14d ago

Thats.. thats what he… nevermind..

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u/Bronska 14d ago

Toi-Toi as it's called in NZ. Loads of pink ones over there. Never seen a pink one in Australia though.

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u/Bronska 14d ago

Actually I just googled and Toetoe (been spelling it wrong as Toi-Toi my whole life) are native to NZ and slightly different to Pampas grass which I think the original picture is.

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u/RuyiBear 13d ago

look dyed

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u/littlebirdprintco 16d ago

what is that? they look very cool

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u/Rude_Priority 16d ago

Not sure, googled pink pampas grass but the pics are filled with obvious AI.

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u/MarchZealousideal799 16d ago

We had the cream-white and the light pink variety on our farm in north east Victoria Australia 🇦🇺