Yes, lying prone is probably the trickiest part of photographing the low lying stuff to get right in the "leave the site as you found it" stakes. But I don't...
... In the past a lot of conservation effort was dictated by dogma, narrow-mindedness (ie conserving one organism or group at the expense of everything else)...
For the record, and back to the direct debate on the helleborines themselves, I believe the plants wer indeed vandalised for the following reasons: 1. As has...
All 3 species occur at Waitby Greenriggs reserve in Cumbria, with the warden (who is an orchidophile) stating that " The only problem in sniff testing them is...
Hello Everyone Thank you for all your ideas and responses - ( Gill Rob Darrel Rosney Colin and All ) this turned into a very interesting thread on the humble...
Hi John Having just read your post and looked at your Picture of Wild Parsnip I would say you could well be right !!! I would love to have resources to be able...
Hi all - I have posted three shots of an equisetum and one of a fern in my ryenats folder (sorry for the bad quality - it was dark and raining!) I think the...
For the record I looked at my (one) local plant today and it does not seem to be developing the dark central florets, although one of its umbels had a pale...
Gill I had a quick look but would need to ponder longer and fumble through my fern literature - shots not too bad - given weather ;) I found this in passing ...
Hi Malcolm Good to hear from you, useful link also. Many thanks for that Perhaps the theory is to attract the insect accross the flower head as a whole making...
Interesting to follow the carrot conundrum thread, suspect it still has some running left in it! However, a friend has sent me some pictures of a plant he saw...
Hi Gill, Dryopteris carthusiana is found in fens/mires and wet woodland, so is perfectly plausible, but the plant in the photograph does not 'feel' right to...
Gill, the horsetail looks very much like hyemale to me, and I have actually seen it near Goathland about 50 years ago, I think on the way down to Malyan Spout....
... Blimey! He compressed those a bit didn't he! Doesn't make it easy... It's an insect gall on a speedwell, probably Veronica chamaedrys and the gall is...
<<Not sure if anybody mentioned it, but bees can't see red...>> Ah! What about other insects? Wonder any other umbels have a single sterile flower in the...
Thanks Malcolm - Yes, I agree - and I'm sure it's on chamaedrys - there's a lot of it about his year with all the rain! I have never actually seen this type of...
Thank you Rodney. Yes, this was indeed down behind the Mallyan Spout hotel, so it's probably the same colony. Interesting that it's so persistent. It was an...
Alps = arvense long Palustre short also arvense has a pith Palustre does not. Not sure about hymale Colin Jacobs. Professional Writer, Naturalist and...
Gill, That rather half-hearted banding of the sheaths is very characteristic of Equisetum x moorei, which is hitherto unknown in mainland Britain although...
As part of ongoing research, I need to access a copy of the following paper - Weston RP. 1983 A Lincolnshire Epipactis. Watsonia 14. (4): 457-458 (1983)- En An...
Interesting - that's what I wondered from the single stem I photographed, but if you look at the habitat shot it does show others with the black and white...
Have you checked the BSBI site? - They have a lot of papers available - and I believe you can ask for others to be scanned if the one you want isn't there. ...
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Gill, If it was just the one stem like that rather than a whole population or significant part of it, I would write it down to life's rich tapestry. I...
Well! Fifty years ago I'd never heard of Equisetum x moorei, and now I'd be very happy to be proved wrong. Yes, do send a specimen to Fred Rumsey - he has...
er, slight problem there - I'm off for a week starting at crackof dawn tomorrow - do you have an address for Fred, and how should I pack the specimen? Gill...
