It looks like Allium oleraceum to me. It could be A. roseum, but I don't think the tepals are long enough. A. carinatum is pink, and quite small flowered but...
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pucebody
Jul 1, 2002 2:15 pm
... enough. A. ... stamens, ... this ... Thanks for all the replies. Allium oleraceum has been recorded in a road verge not very far away. I also think it to...
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Storey, M.W.
bioimages2000
Jul 1, 2002 2:50 pm
... Looks like the one we have in our garden which I think I decided was Allium neapolitanum. Malcolm Storey...
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Jul 2, 2002 2:04 pm
Ron, I've been away for a while, otherwise I'd have put my oar in on this sooner. I think H. sphondylium var. angustifolium Huds. is a recognised entity still,...
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Jul 2, 2002 2:05 pm
I'm not surprised nobody else reacted to this while I was away. Why should there be a single current line of thinking about this taxonomically controversial...
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Jul 2, 2002 2:05 pm
Any parasite is a pest if you are growing the host plant as a seed crop (red clover is in lots of seed mixtures and is one of the commonest host plants of O....
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Jul 2, 2002 2:05 pm
I have had all the Alliums mentioned except A. vineale and A. neapolitanum (which I think always has pure white flowers) in the garden in Kent at one time or...
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Ian Thirlwell
mothman45uk
Jul 2, 2002 2:54 pm
One man's parasite is another man's pest I suppose. Ian ... From: "Rodney Burton" <rodney.burton@...> To: <UKBotany@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday,...
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Ian Thirlwell
mothman45uk
Jul 2, 2002 3:06 pm
The date of the Allium wasn't mentioned in the original post (30 June) as far as I can remember, so I'm not sure whether they coincided or not. A. roseum went...
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Storey, M.W.
bioimages2000
Jul 2, 2002 3:54 pm
... Agreed. I looked it up again last night and withdraw that suggestion (neapolitanum). Malcolm Storey...
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pucebody
Jul 3, 2002 12:01 am
... June) as far as I can remember, so I'm not sure whether they ... neapolitanum ... Kent at one ... is much ... carinatum is ... bet. ... long 'wispy' ... ...
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Ian Thirlwell
mothman45uk
Jul 3, 2002 7:50 am
Peter, I think you need to check the plant out with the details in Stace. However, salient points for A. roseum are: 1) stems terete (round in cross section) ...
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pucebody
Jul 3, 2002 4:16 pm
... lower end of this range) ... Thanks Ian, will do so next year if it appears again. Peter...
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Jul 3, 2002 9:13 pm
A. oleraceum - flowers not brightly coloured, not quite visible yet in my garden, all I can see at present is the spathe surrounding the flower buds and drawn...
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Ron Tavender
sennapods
Jul 4, 2002 5:19 pm
Hi Rob et al, For information about this species' status on the R. Tamar, refer to Watsonia, Volume 24, Part 1, pp. 57 - 67, where will be found a paper by Tim...
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Ron Tavender
sennapods
Jul 4, 2002 6:39 pm
Hi Rodney at al, Delayed reply due to botanising in Lincs. and Yorks. Today I had another look at the putative hybrid, which has now gone into seed. Nearby is...
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Sarah Stille
sarah2stille
Jul 4, 2002 8:29 pm
I've been waiting all agog to read a reply to Darrel's original enquiry. I can well understand that there is no single consensus about Dactylorhizas but it...
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Andy Horton
glaucus25
Jul 5, 2002 10:42 pm
Hello, Widewater Lagoon Seawater Pipeline REPORT OF THE PUBLIC EXHIBITION (4 July 2002) OF THE SEA DEFENCES ON SHOREHAM BEACH ON THE SEAWARD SIDE OF WIDEWATER...
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Andy Horton
glaucus25
Jul 7, 2002 9:04 pm
Hello, 7 July 2002 The trip in the unseasonal drizzle to Widewater Lagoon, ostensibly in the search for the sea anemone Edwardsia ivelli, but actually the...
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Rob Woodall
rwoodall1960
Jul 8, 2002 10:57 pm
I found a couple of Dact lapponica colonies a week ago, only to learn it is now back at subsp level apparently [of what sp?]. Also pleased to learn that some,...
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Darrel Watts
dw1305
Jul 9, 2002 12:16 pm
With apologies for the somewhat belated reply, The Dactylorhizas are a taxonomically 'interesting' group. The reason that I thought that the mists may be...
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Andy Mabbett
pigsonthewinguk
Jul 9, 2002 6:01 pm
What do you make of this: <http://www.expressandstar.com/artman/publish/article_6268.shtml> (news item with picture) -- Andy Mabbett "We play the game, we zap...
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Ian Thirlwell
mothman45uk
Jul 9, 2002 7:07 pm
Someone pulling sone's leg?? A plant that lays on the bottom of a jar for a century, floating to the top from time to time to be fed sugar? Hmmm. Ian ... From:...
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Ron Tavender
sennapods
Jul 9, 2002 7:46 pm
Oh Dear - the silly season is clearly upon us, affecting even the provincial media! I think it's a Ginger Beer Plant, based on ground ginger, yeast and a ...
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Rob Woodall
rwoodall1960
Jul 10, 2002 10:53 pm
I visited my local Y Birdsnest site this eve (Wakerley Woods, VC32) and was pleased to find that it's the (?scarcer?) ssp hypopitys (larger more numerous fls)....
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Rob Woodall
rwoodall1960
Jul 15, 2002 6:51 pm
Does anyone know of a Damasonia alisma site which has produced plants this year? If so, information would be appreciated Thanks Rob Woodall...
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Alan Lewis
Alan.Lewis@...
Jul 16, 2002 7:57 am
Dear Rob I checked the Leatherhead site a few weeks ago, nothing doing (but perhaps too early?); no management has been undertaken here for about 4 years so I...
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Andy Johnson
andyjohnson_cpm
Jul 19, 2002 11:52 am
Dear all We are currently botanising our way around Scotland, and are particularly keen to see Cicerbita alpina and Artemisia norvegica. We have general ...
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Ron Tavender
sennapods
Jul 19, 2002 5:26 pm
Andy - Cicerbita alpina - Grid Ref. NO246785, Lochnagar, best approached from Spittal of Glen Muick. Look in first ravine to right of main gully (which is ...
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Barry Yates
barryjohnyates
Jul 19, 2002 8:02 pm
Galeopsis angustifolia is now in full bloom on the coastal shingle at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The common form is pink with white central markings. Stace...
