Hello, Helleborus foetidus This is not the right time of year for this plant that flowers in February and March. Is this a scarce plant? I came across an old...
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Giles Groome
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Jul 3, 2001 8:12 am
Andy the Sussex Botanical Recording Society have just published The Sussex Rare Plant Register. I fully recommend that you get a copy.....its great (even from...
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School of Plant Scien...
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Jul 3, 2001 10:19 am
Hello, It might not be native here, but we have quite a large amount of Helleborus foetidus wild in our garden - it seems to spread quite effectively. It...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Jul 3, 2001 10:44 am
... Hi Andy, Stinking Hellebore (see http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T244.HTM) is a rare plant of chalk downland. When I lived in Hove as a teenager I never...
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Gordon Hanson
Gordon27@...
Jul 3, 2001 7:25 pm
Dear M.W. My well thumbed copy of "Wild Orchids of Britain" by V. S. Summerhayes(1951) describes root systems in great detail with drawings and photographs....
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Valerie Eastwood
Valerie.Eastwood@...
Jul 3, 2001 8:02 pm
Dear Andy, I read with interest in the recently published book 'Unto the Hills' by P Coulcher, p119 - 'On the north foreshore of Shoreham beach ... grows a...
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Giles Groome
ggroome@...
Jul 4, 2001 8:42 am
John as I wrote to Andy : the Sussex Botanical Recording Society have just published The Sussex Rare Plant Register. I fully recommend that you get a copy.......
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Jul 4, 2001 9:30 am
... Hi Rodney (and Gordon) Thanks for your comments. I wasn't doubting the paired structure and the "one dies every year" bit (which incidentally includes...
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Simon Harrap
Simon@...
Jul 4, 2001 12:26 pm
Dear All, Last year in Norwich we noticed large numbers of broomrapes Orobanche growing on the side of a duel carriageway where amenity shruberys had been ...
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Darrel Watts
d.watts@...
Jul 4, 2001 12:33 pm
I don't know about the bark chips, but I am fairly confident that Hebe is a host for O. minor. There is usually a good display of Orobanche minor in the shrub...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Jul 4, 2001 4:56 pm
... There used to be a single plant growing in an isolated concrete planter (forget what was with it - probably Brachyglottis again) right outside the main...
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T Tarpey
t.tarpey@...
Jul 5, 2001 5:02 pm
Hi Simon and Anne Came across same situation here in Colchester on Brachyglottis 'Sunshine' in new shrubbery plantings outside an old people's home a couple of...
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Valerie Eastwood
Valerie.Eastwood@...
Jul 5, 2001 7:20 pm
Giles, Thank you for your directions. Petrohagia nanteuilli - there is no iron fence instead new? low horizontal beams. The notice board is there but the...
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sean.cole
sean.cole@...
Jul 5, 2001 7:38 pm
Hi all, Towards the end of this month, I will be visiting the area where I have failed in the past to see Wild Gladiolus. Can anyone help me? I have a site...
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slongrigg@...
Jul 6, 2001 7:51 pm
I posted this 2 days ago but it doesn't seem to have arrived, so apologies if you receive it twice. In "Population ecology of terrestrial orchids" ed. T.C.E....
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Sarah J. Longrigg
slongrigg@...
Jul 7, 2001 10:57 pm
In "Population ecology of terrestrial orchids" ed. T.C.E. Wells & J.H. Willems there is a chapter on D. fuchsii based on original research by the authors and...
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Steve McWilliam
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Jul 8, 2001 9:24 pm
Just to let you know that the rECOrd web-site has been updated this weekend. A number of small changes with the major items being on the Policies,...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Jul 9, 2001 10:11 am
... That's great. Thanks Sarah. Malcolm S...
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Barbra Harvie
bharvie@...
Jul 9, 2001 10:15 am
I am researching a PhD on succession and vegetation dynamics. On one of my field sites I have come across several plants of P. lanceolata with unusual...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Jul 9, 2001 10:28 am
... Yes, seen it a few of times. Pictures on bioimages: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T45829.HTM There seem to be two forms of branched inflorescences: ...
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Darrel Watts
d.watts@...
Jul 9, 2001 11:51 am
Barbara, I have seen this a few times, we have quite a few plants with 'it', in our experimental management plots. I think its viral, but I haven't got a ...
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alan.lewis@...
Jul 9, 2001 3:28 pm
At the weekend I found four plants of this species (Dionaea muscipula) in a Hampshire bog. Can anyone tell me how long they have been there since originally...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Jul 9, 2001 5:27 pm
... Hi Alan, Some people at English Nature mentioned this 3 or 4 years ago. There's also (or was) a Sarracenia flava somewhere in the New Forest. And there is...
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Ian Thirlwell
iant@...
Jul 9, 2001 6:28 pm
Alan, I've not heard of this plant in Hants (presumably in a New Forest bog?), and it isn't in the Hampshire Flora, tho' that tends to be a bit skimpy on...
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Malcolm Ogilvie
malcolm@...
Jul 9, 2001 6:57 pm
In message <3B49E848.5C37@...>, "Storey, M.W." <malcolms@...> writes ... Stace (New Flora of the British Isles, 2nd ed, 1997), doesn't...
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Martin Cragg-Barber
martin@...
Jul 10, 2001 3:20 pm
Consensus amongst aberrant plantain watchers whom I know is that the condition is genetic. Local population, round the corner by Station Master's House, had...
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richard@...
Jul 10, 2001 6:43 pm
Help!! I once gathered some notes on the plants that are known to have been introduced into Britain by the Romans. However, I have mislaid them and would like...
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Andy Horton
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Jul 10, 2001 7:42 pm
Hello, Grove of Chequers Trees Does anybody know if the proposed Hastings by-pass threatens a grove of twenty Sorbus tormanalis at St. Leonards? There was no...
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mgobc@...
Jul 10, 2001 8:56 pm
I saw this species at Vales Moor in 1996 so they have been there at least since then. Mark...
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Steve Preddy
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Jul 10, 2001 11:14 pm
Bath Asparagus (a.k.a. Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem) almost certainly, in my opinion. ... -- Support the Stop Esso campaign www.stopesso.com...