Hi Does anyone have experience of managing sites where Orobanche rapum-genistae is parasitic on broom? Advice on situations where some clearance on site is...
Ruth Dawes
Dawes.Rosedale@...
Jul 2, 2007 4:53 am
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I was recently looking at some Mercurialis annua, which was growing with a "mystery plant". The latter was about the same size and structure, but "looked...
I don't have any direct knowledge of the group, other than the odd plant encountered in botanical gardens, but apparently many members of the Restionaceae are...
Hi Roger, Interesting you should mention Mercurialis annua. If I can answer a different question: The Spanish/Portuguese race of M. annua which is monoecious...
Press release on the MONARCH report: http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/news/subindex.asp?aid=1280 Phil [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I don't have any experience of management for Orobanche, but it may be useful to know that at a site near Bangor, N Wales, O. rapum-genistae was at its most...
Paul Smith
pasmith@...
Jul 4, 2007 8:22 pm
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Hello, I feel silly but I do not seem to recognise this reasonably frequent plant on a chalk road bank at Old Shoreham, Sussex ...
Common birdsfoot-trefoil Lotus corniculatus. On a roadside it might be the often sown var. sativus which is more upright and has slightly hollow stems. Hope...
Hello, Favourable best guess from the hospital (did not have to suffer any tests) and my trepidation has now gone away and I should be better in a few weeks, ...
Andy, I don't think it's dragon's-teeth, though I have seen that on some respectable chalk grassland (Noar Hill near Selborne, Hants). Dragon's-teeth has...
Hi Can anyone suggest a species for this tree? http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa31/rogandboo/CIMG0231.jpg It isn't as glaucous as it looks - the picture...
Any flowers or fruits? Have you got a close-up of the leaves / twigs / buds? As a wild guess could be one of the whitebeams though I don't know off the top of...
Hi Here's a pic of a twig I removed at the time - leaves are a bit shrivelled now. http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa31/rogandboo/UnknownTreeTwig.jpg Thanks...
David, Twig looks to me like a very ordinary sallow, Salix caprea. Rodney _____ From: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UKBotany@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
Oh good grief! Ever got so you can't see the wood for the trees? :-) If I'd stopped and thought it through properly.... Thanks! ... From: Rodney Burton To:...
Hello, PS: 8 July 2007. A closer examination indicates this to be a species of Bird's Foot Trefoil, displaying hundreds of much narrower leaves than is ...
Hi all; i am planning a trip to NW Scotland and hope to visit Cul Mor to see Artemisia; doe anyone have details re the site as it looks an awe inspiring place...
Very roughly: Cross plateau (hill) and walk towards the saddle between Cul Mor and its neighbour. Go down the hill you're on into the valley and up the hill to...
In a message dated 7/8/07 12:20:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, martin@... writes: Hi all; i am planning a trip to NW Scotland and hope to...
PandIEVANS@...
Jul 10, 2007 5:08 pm
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Hi Paul; thanks very much for the info; hope its not as tough as the walk up Bidean nan Bian for Saxifrages which we will be doing in the same week (my 4th...
Hi I've just splashed out on a Nikon D80 primarily with the aim of getting some decent close up photos of the UK sedges.? Can anyone recommend a macro lens. ...
Hi Nige, I use the Tamron 90mm. (Back in OM-1 SLR I used to use Olympus's 50mm Zuiko macro lens [which only went to 1:2], but modern lenses are longer so they ...
I had been considering between the Nikon 60mm f2.8 micro and the Tamron 90 mm, both of which were suggested.? In the end I opted for the Nikon.? Preliminary...
I have posted a couple of pics in Phil's Mystery album which I would appreciate an i.d. if possible. This is bugging me a bit as I feel I ought to know it but...
It's an Epilobium, I think E. tetragonum. E. obscurum is similar but should have shorter fruits and glandular hairs on the calyx. If it is E. tetragonum then...
Thanks for your reply Giles. Certainly looks like E. tet. as there are no glandular hairs, only very fine downy hairs. Can't see the 4 obvious stem ridges,...
