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8182 Rodney Burton
rodney_m_burton Send Email
May 20, 2013
2:16 pm
I agree with Flora Locale's argument, based on research done at the Natural History Museum. Nurserymen found that they could propagate Spanish/hybrid ...
8183 Anne and Simon Harrap
epipogium2003 Send Email
May 20, 2013
2:24 pm
Flora Locale's comment certainly seem to make sense. A typical 'bluebell wood' has thousands, if not millions, of plants. If a small number of hybrid...
8184 Andy Horton
glaucus25 Send Email
May 22, 2013
4:49 pm
Hello, I have penned this as a Common Milkwort, Polygala vulgaris, but I am not sure. I have read that the leaves on the Chalk Milkwort are blunter. ...
8185 Rodney Burton
rodney_m_burton Send Email
May 22, 2013
6:26 pm
Andy, I think you are right that it is Common Milkwort. You can just about see the anastomosing veins on the coloured sepals, and the relative leaf shapes are...
8186 Andy Horton
glaucus25 Send Email
May 22, 2013
9:35 pm
Hello Rodney, Thanks for the opinion. I will photograph the sepals closer next time. Cheers Andy Horton To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com From:...
8187 dw1305 Send Email May 23, 2013
8:54 am
Hi all, The Plant Crib is useful for these: <http://www.bsbi.org.uk/Polygala_Crib.pdf>, once you've got your eye in the jizz of the plants is different, and...
8188 Rodney Burton
rodney_m_burton Send Email
May 23, 2013
12:22 pm
The Plant Crib doesn't actually deal with P. calcarea, but it does illustrate the anastomosing veins of those species which have them. P. calcarea veins don't...
8189 dw1305 Send Email May 24, 2013
9:47 am
Hi all, Rodney I didn't look in the book, but the linked BSBI pdf gives a good description of P. vulgaris, P. serpyllifolia and P. calcarea. cheers Darrel...
8190 Andy Horton
glaucus25 Send Email
May 26, 2013
9:41 pm
Hello, Buttercups http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoreham/8844948502/ This buttercup which spreads rapidly in my tiny garden is not positively identified. It is...
8191 Rodney Burton
rodney_m_burton Send Email
May 27, 2013
3:03 pm
Andy, Any buttercup which spreads rapidly in a garden is likely to be creeping buttercup, Ranunculus repens. There's nothing in your top row of pictures to ...
8192 Perseus
glaucus25 Send Email
May 28, 2013
2:05 pm
Milkwort picture showing sepals:...
8193 Perseus
glaucus25 Send Email
May 28, 2013
2:06 pm
Bulbous Buttercupos everywhere on chalk. Thousands. # Photographing leaves is on the "to do" list when it stops raining. ...
8194 Tim
timmcilveen Send Email
Jun 2, 2013
7:04 pm
Can anyone help with the id of the photos in the folder below. The folder contains three images of the same wild flower. I assume it is a vetch, but the leaves...
8195 Martin
rand_martin Send Email
Jun 3, 2013
6:13 am
Thyme-leaved Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia). Opposite, undivided leaves, (no member of the Pea family has opposite leaves); and have a look at the flower...
8196 naturanaute Send Email Jun 10, 2013
7:22 am
Hi, I would say thyme-leaved speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia) rather than a vetch. Sophie...
8197 Perseus
glaucus25 Send Email
Jun 10, 2013
1:22 pm
Hello, Two more Milkwort pics at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UKBotany/photos/album/1534406390/pic/list The last two from a different chalk location for the...
8198 dw1305 Send Email Jun 10, 2013
4:03 pm
Hi all, You'll have to wait for a more definitive answer, but the inner sepals should not have any minor veins ("anastoming&quot;)connecting the major veins in P....
8199 Perseus
glaucus25 Send Email
Jun 10, 2013
5:11 pm
Hello, thanks for the reply. I have still got it down as P. vulgaris, and it seems to thrive better on bare chalk than amongst the proliferation of herbs,...
8200 Chris Lane
christophlane Send Email
Jun 18, 2013
8:00 am
Dear All,I'm planning a bicycle tour of the UK, in order to meet one plant from each genus of flowering plants. That's 513 in all according to The Wildflower...
8201 ginniecopsey... Send Email Jun 18, 2013
8:44 am
I thought you were inviting us to join you! Sounds good fun. :-) Ginnie...
8202 Rodney Burton
rodney_m_burton Send Email
Jun 18, 2013
8:49 am
Interesting idea, Chris. Were you thinking of doing this next year? It's already too late for Adoxa this year, probably, and will need a lot of planning....
8203 Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000 Send Email
Jun 18, 2013
9:32 am
Since you base it on the Wildflower Key, you're presumably just targeting British wild flowers, so I don't understand the relevance of the Eden Project which...
8204 christophlane Send Email Jun 18, 2013
12:39 pm
Yes! Do join me. Part of the plan is to meet lots and lots of plant people, share lots of knowledge. Anyone is welcome to cycle along with me, or host me....
8205 christophlane Send Email Jun 18, 2013
12:40 pm
Planning to get gone sometime in August. Hoping to find places to wwoof along the way, especially through Winter. Another big aim of the trip is to meet plant...
8206 christophlane Send Email Jun 18, 2013
12:40 pm
Great info, thanks Malcolm. The relevance of the Eden Project I suppose is that I wanted to go with an ex-girlfriend when I was wwoofing in Devon, but didn't...
8207 ginniecopsey... Send Email Jun 18, 2013
1:36 pm
Let us know when you are in the Winchester Southampton area :-) ... From: christophlane <chrislane57@...> To: UKBotany <UKBotany@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
8208 Rodney Burton
rodney_m_burton Send Email
Jun 18, 2013
4:52 pm
About pressing, if it's just for keeping a record, save yourself a lot of bother and rely on photographs instead. With digital cameras, they'll come out in...
8209 christophlane Send Email Jun 18, 2013
5:33 pm
Will do, thanks :) .. i've started a contacts list so I don't lose people....
8210 christophlane Send Email Jun 18, 2013
6:05 pm
Thanks Rodney, that all makes sense to me. I have plans to get really into photography, and you could be right about relying more upon that. I'll think about...
8211 Anand Prasad
swanandprasad Send Email
1:16 pm
This sounds like a book in the making. prasad -- http://treshnishbirdlog.blogspot.co.uk/...
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