Steve, having just been notified of a spam, dating service, clipboard message in the files area of another group, I have been checking the other groups I...
Hello, I am having second thoughts. Is the bottom leaf Lime (Tilia) or Italian Alder (Alnus cordata) ? http://www.glaucus.org.uk/MillHill-Copse_leaves-1e.jpg ...
Hello, Mill Hill, Shoreham, Management Plan This Management Plan is now available from the SDCB. I have not read it yet. The main interest are butterflies,...
Hello, I have now had a look at the Management Plan. It is much the same as the old plan. I am completely opposed to Appendix II which advocates a cattle...
... The secondary veining of the leaves (as far as it is apparent) looks like Tilia, not Alnus. Also Alnus cordata leaves are stiff, and dark green and quite...
Hello I'm not an expert on trees but if the leaf came from Mill Hill, wouldn't this be too dry for Alder which I understood require quite high moisture levels....
Hello Martin, Thanks for the ID. I have tendency to re-examine my IDs. I may actually abandon IDs just from leaves on their own. On an earlier occasion on the...
... I would say the latter. If you can locate the trees the genera are easy enough to distinguish in the winter. Look at the illustrations in the Oxford Book...
cordata, cordatus. Heart-shaped at base Elaine ... From: British Marine Life Study Society To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:45...
I know next to nothing about Mill Hill and the likelihood of any particular species growing there, (live in NW Scotland!). However, on the question of ...
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Hello, Italian Alder I expect that the tree is in this photograph, at a guess, I think it is the one immediately to the right of the path. ...
... and very ... past, so of ... trees. This ... leaves on ... Alnus cordata (unlike many other species of Alnus) have a smooth, almost leathery part-gloss...
Hello, I will check the tree out if I can find which one. Weather permitting as it was a bit parky today. The cold air gets in my lungs if I cycle up the hill....
My dad has a cd rom on which he logs sightings of birds, and for Christmas he wants to buy my mum a similar cd rom so that she can record details about...
Louise, one program is MapMate, that a number of people on this group use. It is a database type system and provides for various reports and maps to be...
Hello, Lime and Italian Alder. Tilia and Alnus. The first species seems to have a drawn out tip with a heart-shaped (cordata) leaf. I could not find the...
For native Alder that would be true, but several species (including A. viridis and A. cordata) thrive in much drier conditions. The latter especially is often...
And one thing Ian didn't point out is that it has been officially adopted by the Botanical Society of the British Isles for its recording schemes, which makes...
In message <000f01c3bdda$22155750$6401a8c0@MM1>, Ian Thirlwell <ianthirlwell@...> writes ... Since when? I don't recall being invited. -- Andy Mabbett...
I grow six or seven different species of Alnus in soil which, in winter, can be very wet or almost flooded. This has been a dry summer and in our northern...
Hi Louise I have keyed in the Latin names of 740 wild plant species from the SW, with common names and families for Excel. At least it taught me the names of...
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Andy A good book that explains the meaning of Latin names is called 'The names of plants' by David Gledhill. My review published in Annals of Botany (vol 91...
Terry Smith
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Good for you Andi - I was especially delighted with **Gratianopolitanus - a well known gardening book published some years ago had a beautiful picture of...
I don't think there is such a thing, but it might be worth putting the query on the message board of the Wild Flower Society website www.rbge.org.uk/data/wfsoc...
I guess something much more low-key than this was in mind for Louise's Mum. There's a much greater variety of flowering plants about than birds, and people who...
If Louise's Mum is keen enough on wild flowers to want to keep a record of what she finds - as her Dad does for bird records - I would have thought she would...
