Please click on the below link. _http://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/Horsham/Flowers/_ (http://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/Horsham/Flowers/) Many thanks. Phil Baldwin...
The first one is meadow cranesbill, Geranium pratense. The other looks like some sort of monstrosity to me, with all those leafy bits behind the flower. ... ...
Hello Phil, Very very rarely (first time), I can identify plants that others can't. I think the first one is Meadow's Cranesbill and the second one is...
Hello, Birdwatchers on Mill Hill (they come to see the Gull-billed Tern on the estuary) get confused (it is easy to do). The top of Mill Hill near the car park...
Hi Folks Posted In Photo Folder under sub folder Mystery I wonder if any one could pass comment on the two lots of Pictures on Cats Ear ( hypochaeris...
Dear All, I dug out some compost from the bottom of the heap - several years old, watered it to pot up seedling. Within a day or two, three semi-decomposed fir...
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... http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/slides/universe/sotu_pla.htm Could anyone comment on the validity this passage of text about Teasels digesting insects ...
In a message dated 6/5/05 5:00:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Valerie.Eastwood@... writes: Dear All, I dug out some compost from the bottom of the heap -...
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This is not the first time I have heard of this in Teasel. I'm not sure how strong the evidence is (this text sounds a little like theory - I mean, has anyone...
Hello, An interesting discussion. I have got nothing to add. The Teasel is growing in my front garden and it is raining! This was a deliberate introduction to...
It's been suggested a few times, and could certainly be true, but I haven't heard of any studies examining it. Regards, Martin. Martin Bailey, Ecologist ...
... Agreed. ... Seems very unlikely, but would require some serious equipment to prove. Sounds more like fungal hyphae (mould) or algae! ... It may well be...
Hi John, If it looks like steel wool, it maybe Phycomyces blakesleeanus or P. nitens. Usually on dung but will grow on many rotting things. Send me the...
Thanks www.northacres-streat.co.uk ... From: "Storey, M.W." <malcolms@...> To: <UKBotany@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 4:45 PM ...
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Thanks for your help www.northacres-streat.co.uk ... From: <PandIEVANS@...> To: <UKBotany@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: Re:...
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The descendants of Charles Darwin are retracing his footsteps by surveying wild flowers in the meadows around his former home at Down House, in Kent. In June...
Looks like spotted medick to me: Medicago arabica. Common in maritime turf, and also in lawns where these are cut from near the sea. Did it have any flowers?...
Richard - thanks for the suggestion, not a species that had occurred to me. However, I think it is a Trifolium. It really looks quite like T. repens, but...
Hello, I have done the elementary research. The message was just in case that there was some unpublished research. It happened with Fallow Deer. O Rackham...
Perhaps I might kick off with a quote from my 1961 copy of Salisbury's "weeds and aliens" which says "Roman or earlier". Gordon Hanson. ... From: British...
I have returned to have another look at the mystery plant, and have come to the conclusion that it is just T. repens. I have seen other plants of the same...
How common is Grass Vetchling around the country? Does it occur in large patches? http://lancingnature.blogspot.com/ I was very surprised to find a single...
... Not uncommon, at least in the south. ... Sometimes. Or as singletons. ... Sometimes easier to spot when in fruit as it becomes quite stiff and you wonder...
According to our local N.E. Essex flora Grass Vetchling is commonest in our coastal grasslands, but can occur in suitable rough grassy sites elsewhere. On...
Andy, For questions of this sort I always turn to Sir Harry Godwin's 'History of the British Flora'. The entry for Castanea sativa is short. The relevant gist ...
