Hello Can anyone throw any light on this aberrant Plantago major (50 cm tall) found on lowland roadside verge in Shropshire? Bacteria? Mutation? Gall? Ruth ...
Ruth Dawes
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Nov 2, 2008 6:46 pm
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Hi Ruth, Am afraid that, for security reasons, all attachments are removed from messages posted to this group. You have to visit the group on the web and go to...
Hi Ruth - as Malcolm says, we can't actually see your pic, which is a pity as it sounds very intriguing - please can you try and loadit into the Photos area of...
In George Ewart Evan's book, "Ask the feloows who cut the hay", a Suffolk farmer stated, "...the fields were sour with megbeg, sorrel etc." Does anyone know to...
Helen Proctor
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Nov 24, 2008 10:35 pm
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Subject: [UKBotany] What plant is Megbeg, please Geoffrey Grigson (The Englishman's Flora) gives "Megweed" as a local name, used in Sussex for Alexanders...
Thanks, David for your reply. Creeping buttercup seems the most likely candidate, unless there are any other ideas? Regards, Helne Proctor [Non-text portions...
Helen Proctor
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Nov 25, 2008 9:55 pm
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Dear All, I hope that some of you will support this initiative to get the Scottish Parliament on board with biological/biodiversity recording etc. Please see...
The name,"Rumex thrysiflorus" was used in a botanical survey for a planning application. I cannot find the name in any of my floras. Please does anyone know...
Helen Proctor
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Dec 15, 2008 9:12 am
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Hi Helen, This is probably a mis-spelling Rumex thyrsiflorus, Compact Dock or Thyrse Sorrel. Looks very similar to Common Sorrel. Flora of North America...
Helen, the name is a mis-spelling of Rumex thyrsiflorus. It's a sorrel, rather than a dock, and has recently spread westwards across France along railways and...
Many thanks Dominic and Rodney. I think the consultant must have employed an American biologist who used an American flora and did not consult any British...
Helen Proctor
hm.proctor@...
Dec 16, 2008 8:16 am
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Interested in Natural History and/or Biodiversity Recording ?? Then you might like to check out the relatively new discussion forum available over at: ...
Hello, I am currently trying to identify all of the plants between Rottingdean and Brighton marina for a website guide. I have put up the pictures I have taken...
Hi all, Ed, your first Rock Samphire is Hottentot Fig (possibly Carpobrotus edulis), and the Red Valerian is an Erigeron, E. "glaucus". You'd need somebody...
Hi Ed / Darrel A very nice post on Sea Plants Ed, and interesting comments on the plants by Darrel , I must admit the Red Valerian i queried in my mind but...
Hi Edward, Probably Smooth Sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus: yes. It's not wall lettuce. Young Red Valerian - Centranthus ruber (E) looks more like Seaside Daisy...
Happy new Year one and all. Whilst out and about on a frosty morn this Yellow Berried evergreen was one of the few pieces of presenting Botany . The leaves are...
Hi all, Traditional Seasonal Greetings to all. Colin, I think your Holly is an Ilex aquifolium or I. x altaclarensis cultivar, the "traditional" yellow berried...
Hi Darrel , many thanks for that ( As precise as ever) I shall revisit this hedging or maybe this year visit a few more garden centres to get up to speed with...
Dear All, rECOrd - the Local Record Centre for the Cheshire region (Cheshire, Halton, Warrington, Wirral and the old VC-58 'pan-handle' around Stockport) is...
Hello. New user here: I'm a geologist, but with side interests in plant taxonomy and classical texts (odd combo I realize, but what can I do?) My question: ...
"Plant Names Simplified" by A T Johnson and H A Smith has it as: "probably from Greek sialon, saliva, the gummy exudations on the stems which ward off...
Welcome to the group, Chuck. <<(odd combo I realize, but what can I do?)>> sounds perfectly sensible to me :-). Sadly I can't add anything to this, always...
RD Macleod, in "Key to the Names of British Plants" (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1952), also suggests the derivation being from 'sialon' which is not much help in...
I think I like the note given in Fournier's "Quatre Flores de France": "Nom d'etymologie totalement inconnue, et par suite expliques de facons tres diverses" -...
Thank you to everyone who responded to my question about the generic name "Silene". Thank you to Gill (ryenats) for the encouragement regarding my profligate...
I know that my contribution is rather late for which I apologise. Some generic (and species?) names have been given because the taxonomist thought that they...
Silene was a drunken companion of Bacchus (Brewer's Dict of Phrase and Fable). An appropriate name for a plant that flowers overnight and the petals shrivel in...
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