Hello, Hypothetical, could it happen? A junior has just left college and he is given a quickie job by a consultancy agency to go and survey a site He does a...
Hello, English elm 'brought by Romans' An outbreak of Dutch elm disease ravaged the trees in the 1970s All English elm trees could be descended from a single...
Subject: Re: [UKBotany] Japanese Knotweed - has it any beneficial uses?? Dear Malcolm thankfully, the hybrid does not appear to have inherited the "aggressive"...
I think this much tolerance of Japanese knotweed is really quite short sighted, and possibly illegal. Personally I think Japanese knotweed is a spectacular...
I am alarmed at the widespread occurrence of Pseudosasa japonica and Cortaderia selloana in gardens. Both are aliens and neither is consumed to any great ...
Terry Smith
t.a.smith@...
Nov 4, 2004 5:19 pm
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This was interesting (best with Broadband) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/nature_20041004.shtml PROGRAMME DETAILS Monday 4 Oct 2004 Lichens Paul and...
Subject: [UKBotany] Re: Japanese Knotweed - has it any beneficial uses?? Dear Richard many thanks for your detailed response to my posting about Japanese ...
... David, as I was reading your reply to Richard, a number of questions and ... What is "urban habitat creation"? ... So one of the purposes of your "urban...
I've been looking closely at my local specimens of Ragworts. I know that I have S. jacobaea and S. aquaticus. I recently came across a specimen where the...
Hello Stuart, I would need pictures. There seem to be a few plants (an other organisms: blue butterflies, sow-thistles, violets, especially fungi past their...
Hi Stuart, I agree that the phyllaries/bracts characters are unreliable. Maybe they're seasonal? I suggest that because the dark edges on Tripleurospermum...
Hi prognosis not good Honey Fungus will kill it eventualy just a question of time. Also leaves the tree open to other maladeys which will just speed the end. ...
Robert, You certainly need to consider more than the one character of bract tip character before even thinking of the possibility of a hybrid. You mention...
Does anybody know of any proof or published research that any flowering plant or fern species has a recently marked measurable change in distribution due to...
Ian Bennallick
Ian@...
Nov 8, 2004 11:03 pm
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Hello Ian and group members, I have not actually found any proof of climate change so far over and above natural fluctuations. I think I would suspect changes...
Rodney, my specific query was about the reliability of bract colouring for identification. I'm aware of achene pubescence as a separator. I'm coming to the...
Subject: Re: [UKBotany] Digest Number 857 ... Dear Stuart many thanks for your comments - I will try to respond to the questions you ask. ... in ... the ... ...
Hi There is lots about how climate change is affecting the movement and distribution of the invertebrates in the invertebrate press - there's usually some...
Terri
terri.tarpey@...
Nov 9, 2004 10:14 am
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... There is lots about how climate change is affecting the movement and distribution of the invertebrates in the invertebrate press - there's usually some...
Check out the UK Phenology website, if you haven't already. http://www.phenology.org.uk/newsletter.htm Martin Bailey, Ecologist Wildlife & Countryside Services...
But, on the other hand, the dead tree will then provide a wonderful home to millions of invertebrates, fungi and remain a vital roost site for the bats, so not...
Hello Ian, JKW Yes it is true - in Europe they use it / have used it as fodder. Also, Whipsnade Wild animal park cut it weekly and feed it to the Elephants. ...
Robert I am v interested in this too - whether black tipped phyllaries (a character in most British floras) is of any use and if so for which taxa. I have...
There was this paper by Richard & Alastair Fitter detailing how many British plant species have been flowering earlier in the past decade, but I don't know of...
I think someone has already suggested looking at the Woodland Trust's Phenology website at http://www.phenology.org.uk/ An extract from this site says: ...
Stuart, I'm not sure that you can be sure! 'This hybrid is partially fertile and morphologically very variable, sometimes forming complex populations through...
... branches ... Rodney and Clare (and others in private emails)...Thanks for your input. I've put up a page with my ramblings on the latest page of my site: ...
