Not sure if Natural England are involved, my understanding is that the Edgecumbe Estate manages the site. Some eminent authors discredited the natural...
Hi, I spent last weekend on The Lizard in Cornwall searching for the three "endemic" clovers (Twin-headed Clover Trifolium bocconei, Long-headed Clover T....
Hi Carl. Many thanks for your reply. In fact I believe there are a number of plants which normally have non-white flowers that also have a white form. Near...
White-flowered Lousewort very occasionally turns up on the New Forest, although I think I've seen its congener Pedicularis palustris in bridal wear more often....
Hi Phil - yes, white forms of purply flowers are relatively common - most famously heather of course :-). I have found white red deadnettle too, also bugle,...
Hi Gill, as it happens I was in Glencoe today and almost half the lousewort I saw was white. If there's a mineral deficiency it doesn't seem to have affected...
I've also seen white early purple orchid and white fragrant orchid (see http://tinyurl.com/om3wdu) Last week, well away from any likely hybridising with garden...
Yes, I've seen white early purples too - and green-winged orchids for that matter - but not primroses (though I have seen pink ones occasionally in the wild). ...
... I have white Bluebells, white Common Spotted Orchids, white Bush Vetch. http://donegal-wildlife.blogspot.com/2009/05/gap-between-showers.html shows the...
Can add Lychnis flos cucli and ophrys apifera amazing what can be found or listed. I wonder why my Lamium purpureum seeds did not the have white flowers of the...
Lamium purpureum and Cirsium arvense show white flowers occasionally in Suffolk I tried growing seeds of both but the flowers came out normally coloured. Colin...
Do all flowers at sometime or another show white flowers?. it does not just happen with annuals as perrenials are also found. Has anyone done any scientific...
I returned this afternoon (In rain) to have another look at the Pilosella aurantiaca sp (Fox and Cubs) which looks like ssp carpathicola rather than ssp...
... White flowers are generally caused by z broken gene in the pathway for colour manufacture. In order for this to be expressed BOTH genes need to be...
Is it possible your Lamium purpureum was affected by farm spraying? I found a whole lot a couple of years ago that was white all around a crop field (taties I...
Back in 1993 I wrote a note on this subjest for BSBI News but it was not published - can't remember why. FWIW here it is: From issue 56 to issue 60 of BSBI...
West of Loch Linnhe last week I was seeing occasional Tormentil plants with flowers which were white or almost so. I don't recall seeing this before. Also a...
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the photos - I was wondering if you might be able to provide Plantlife with any counts and habitat assessment for the C. longifolia? ...
Hi Dominic Actually, this is not the Talkin Tarn site (which I've never visited!). Belinda Wheeler had the detail for Plantlife when she was doing the...
Welcome, Colin. Do you have a surname? Rodney Burton _____ From: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UKBotany@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of benacre2001 Sent: 07...
Yes, You do have a surname! The yellow of most yellow flowers is formed differently from other flower colours and white-flowered variants of yellow-flowered...
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