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...
... 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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
... 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' ... ...
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) ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
With apologies for the somewhat belated reply, The Dactylorhizas are a taxonomically 'interesting' group. The reason that I thought that the mists may be...
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...
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:...
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 ...
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)....
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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Dear all We are currently botanising our way around Scotland, and are particularly keen to see Cicerbita alpina and Artemisia norvegica. We have general ...
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 ...
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...
