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Sylvatica

@Botany2021

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Wrapping up my Cornwall August finds at with some great species of plants. I hope you like them.

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Sylvatica

@Botany2021

5 years

I'll be having a routine heart operation tomorrow so I will be out of action for a while. Hopefully afterwards, taking a photo while crouching won't leave me gasping, faint and breathless. I'm looking forward to a brighter Spring.

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@Botany2021

7 years

1000s of Papaver rhoeas, Common Poppies, Nr Eynsford, Kent 050717. Numerous photographers as well!

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@Botany2021

1 year

One of the many stunning Pale Butterworts in flower today at Goss Moor #Cornwall , what a beauty. It eats insects that land on its sticky leaves which fold up and devour it. Pinguiscula lusitanica

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@Botany2021

7 years

Galanthus nivalis "Flore Pleno", Snowdrop, naturalised for several hundred yards along the River Darent Farningham, Kent 100218 for #wildflowerhour (got very muddy knees taking this)

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@Botany2021

2 years

Originally found by @danryan_nature the amazing Sea Daffodil is now flowering. 2 plants on sand dunes, near St Austell, Cornwall 140822 late for #wildflowerhour Pancratium maritimum - believed to have arrived on its own steam from Brittany, no evidence of any planting.

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@Botany2021

4 years

The star of the week has to be this most stunning Wood Vetch, looks like a smaller Goat's rue but with far nicer flowers. Beautiful! Nr Barham East Kent 210620 for #wildflowerhour See thread. 1/3

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@Botany2021

7 years

Ruscus aculeatus, Butcher's Broom, Churchdown Woods nr Longfield, Kent 14/01/18 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

5 years

After my operation - A slow painful walk to the doctors - some new botanical records found along the way (of course), library photos (no way I can take any yet). #pavementplants

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@Botany2021

2 years

Not a rare plant, but it looked good with the raindrops on it. The last of English Stonecrop in flower, St Mewan Beacon 310722 Sedum anglicum, early for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

9 months

Just got my copy of this book. It’s amazing with loads of tips on identifying difficult plant species. Very simple to use too.

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@Botany2021

3 years

Imagine stumbling across this unexpectedly nowhere near any reserve, then finding another 10 nearby! Amazing things can happen. It did for me many times over the last 8 years since I took up botany. Lady Orchid, West Kent. Orchis purpurea

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@Botany2021

4 years

TQ6159 Wrotham, Kent 200520 @KentWildlife RNR A20 north verge, several thousand flowers not mown and left for the bees to pollinate as part of the roadside nature reserve network around the county (need a lot more though).

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@Botany2021

7 years

Star find of the day, Veronica spicata, Spiked Speedwell, Nationally Scarce, Great Orme 280617

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@Botany2021

5 years

I pushed myself physically today as I'm back at work soon after a long illness and want to make sure I'm fit. Pleased to say I had no medical concerns today - a good day and one that has raised my spirits considerably. How could finding these flowers not do so? #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

5 years

What can one say! Wildflower heaven - all native species and masses of them including some very rare plants too, late for #wildflowerhour TQ7167 @Ranscombe_Farm Longhoes Field 140719 @Love_plants

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@Botany2021

6 years

Melmpyrum cristatum, Crested Cow-wheat, a very rare plant on very ordinary rural road verge, North Essex 230618 for #wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany

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@Botany2021

1 year

Greater Stitchwort appearing in more locations now, Wadebridge yesterday for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

2 years

Nearly there, a Cornish wall orchid 😉today in Wadebridge.

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@Botany2021

5 years

An amazing find by my partner, Elizabeth of a new Kent coastal colony of Early Spider Orchids, not recorded or seen here before. Littlestone, Kent 270419 @LeyshonOwen @BSBIbotany @ukorchids @jml2665 @LeifBersweden @dunnjons

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@Botany2021

1 year

My partners latest crochet creation, it’s about 6’ long!

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@Botany2021

7 years

Grasses are often worth a second look at... I must get to know them better this year.

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@Botany2021

7 years

I was very surprised to find a bunch of Field Scabious flowering on the cliff paths at Eastbourne 200118 for #wildflowerhour Knautia arvensis

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@Botany2021

4 years

Limonium binoversum, Rock Sea Lavender, Folkestone Leas, Kent 190620

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@Botany2021

4 years

I then found a plant far rarer than Bee Orchids and that was Wild Liquorice. I found 2 clumps, new records for this monad. Found in less than 10 areas of West Kent (VC16) this century. Near Shorne CP, Kent 06/06/20 Astragalus glycyphyllos

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@Botany2021

1 year

I've finally found the sub species of Changing forget me not with yellow flowers that turn blue (as opposed to white to blue). Whole plant less than 15cm tall. Near Treligga #Cornwall #wildflowerHour Myosotis discolor subsp discolor

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@Botany2021

4 years

Lizard Orchids on a mid Kent roadside this week for #wildflowerhour Himantoglossum hircinum

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@Botany2021

6 years

This was my favoutie Lady Orchid of the day with intense pink spots on the lower petal lobes, Cutlers Wood (private) E. Kent, KBRG field trip by arrangement 170518. @LeyshonOwen @LemonStephen @ChestermanDanny @BSBIbotany @LliamRooney Orchis purpurea

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@Botany2021

6 years

Happy Christmas day everyone.

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@Botany2021

2 years

With Sweet Violets, and a host of its varieties seen and Common Dog Violets, it was nice to see the tiny Viola arvensis today. Field Pansy, just as pretty as its larger cousins. Found it in a field... Little Petherick #Cornwall for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

6 years

Bee Orchids at Dover. Ophrys apifera. Another white-sepaled variant that looked superb. All protected by the council from mowing. Well done Dover Council. Thanks to Kirsty (KBRG member) for the tip. 10/06/18 for #wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany

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@Botany2021

6 years

Helleborus viridis, Green Hellebore, scarce in Kent, High Elms, Bromley 060318 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

6 years

Myosotis arvensis, Field Forget-me-not, Sevenoaks, Kent 04/11/18 for #wildflowerhour #thewinter10

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@Botany2021

8 months

Happy New Year to all my followers and to anyone who loves nature.

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@Botany2021

7 years

Ophrys insectifera, Fly Orchid, Yockletts, Kent 290417 #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

4 years

#wildflowersseeninuk Saxifraga stellaris, Starry Saxifrage Snowdonia 270617

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@Botany2021

4 years

Amazing find of over 150 Man Orchids hidden away on verges & being previously undiscovered yet only yards away from lots of traffic. Orchis anthrpophora, TQ5872 Bean west (Kent) 240520 late for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

4 years

Thanks to a tip off from a friend, I found these apparently un-named Bee Orchid variants today in North Kent. Perhaps @ukorchids would know? North Kent 140620 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

7 years

Stumbled on this by accident nr a layby, Saxifraga stellaris, Starry Saxifrage, Snowdonia 270617 another 1st and a beautiful delicate flower

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@Botany2021

7 years

#favouritefind Comarum palustre, Marsh Cinquefoil, Angelesy Fens Summer 2017

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@Botany2021

6 years

After reports of a weird Fly Orchid @KentWildlife Yockletts 250518 I couldn''t resist having a look around, and amazingly actually found it. Ophrys insectifera var. ochroleuca Probably more surprises to be found on NE part of reserve that is rarely explored.

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@Botany2021

1 year

I love these, they are as eye catching as an orchid spike. The parasitic Common Broomrape, these seem attached to Cat’s Ear rosettes. Orobanche minor subspecies minor var minor at Trevone #cornwall

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@Botany2021

6 years

The first of 100s of Lizard Orchids now in flower, Himantoglossum hircinum, Sandwich 020618, these on a road verge, others in people's front gardens, most on the beach dunes.

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@Botany2021

1 year

Saw-wort was also abundant on the cliff grassland, but again very small after being grazed by cattle. Gunver Head, #Cornwall this evening for #wildflowerhour Serratula tinctoria

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@Botany2021

6 years

This Wild Carrot actually did look like some lacework held up, hence the name, I guess of Queen Anne's Lace. Daucus carota subsp carota, Shorne CP Kent 240718

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@Botany2021

7 years

#favouritefind Briza media, Quaking Grass, a Kent RPR species. Strood, Kent.

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@Botany2021

7 years

Drosera rotundifolia, Round lvd Sundew, Cors Bodeilio NNR Anglesey 250617 some had flower spikes in bud.

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@Botany2021

7 years

Lots of Common Field Speedwells fully open today in the sun, Veronica persica, TQ6969 N. Kent 180218. #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

6 years

The amazing and dazzling Late Spider Orchid - this time with white sepals which I'd not seen before, Ophrys fuciflora, Folkestone, Kent, 10/06/18 for #wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany

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3 months

The small but very attractive flowers of Bog Pimpernel on a hillside flush in short turf. Greena Moor NR Cornwall #wildflowerhour Lysimachia tenella

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@Botany2021

4 years

Merry Christmas to all my Twitter friends and followers. I hope you enjoy my gift to you all in the blog.

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@Botany2021

1 year

Lucky that my eyes were looking down as I was walking right towards this basking Adder. Tintagel churchyard

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@Botany2021

6 years

The first Anemone nemorosa (Wood Anemones) now flowering in North Kent. nr Emmets Kent 060319

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@Botany2021

4 years

While I was off the path, I saw these in the gloom under the Yew trees. I was amazed to find a new colony of Lesser Butterfly Orchids (WOW) a very rare plant in Kent, especially West Kent. West Kingsdown area, Kent. VC16. 25/05/20 I found 9 in total (including 4 blind rosettes)

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@Botany2021

7 years

Some amazing colour forms of an ordinary plant, considered a lawn weed by some. Prunella vulgaris, Selfheal. #letitgrownotmow

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@Botany2021

4 years

#wildflowersseeninuk Perhaps my favourite capture of Lamiastrum galeobdolon Ssp montanum, Yellow Archangel, backdropped by Bluebells - composition was a pleasant accident and not by design! Kent.

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@Botany2021

4 months

Cliff flora at the North Cliffs, #Cornwall today in misty conditions

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@Botany2021

4 years

At a secret road verge in mid Kent (that everyone knows about) are found Lizard Orchids. From a peak a few years back of approaching 100 spikes we're down now to around 20 (quick count), all stunted from drought and being over-run by scrub. 1/3

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@Botany2021

5 years

Ranunculus auricomus, Goldilocks Buttercups, surprisingly some had all their petals attached. This is a scruffy flower and some of the petals usually drop within a day of opening, nr Ightam, Kent today for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

4 years

Just found out today I have Lyme's Disease. I've had it for at least 15 years and its now caused damage to my joints. Misdiagnosed twice as fibromyalgia no one thought to test for it.

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@Botany2021

4 years

My star find by miles this week were two Blue Pimpernels, Lysimachia foemina @Ranscombe_Farm Kent 130920 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

7 years

Menyanthes trifoliata, Bogbean, yukky name for a beautiful flower, Matfield Pond, Kent. 170417

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@Botany2021

4 years

Managed both butterflies in a week. This is the Greater Butterfly Orchid found today in the Borough of Gravesham Kent, 310520 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

6 years

Anacamptis morio, Green-winged orchids, 1000s of them all at their best and in assorted colours. Marden Meadow, Kent 07/05/18

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@Botany2021

1 year

Other people in the group were recording insects of all types and birds too. One of the highlights was a final instar large caterpillar of the Emperor Hawk Moth, Saturnia pavonia, at Creney Farm, #Cornwall today. @CwallWildlife

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@Botany2021

2 years

Still tiny, these are flowering Sea Sandworts. Coming up in their thousands now at Par Sands dunes and elsewhere no doubt. 12/04/22 Honckenya peploides.

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@Botany2021

7 years

Had a skin cancer removed today and have lots of stitches in my chest, so won't be out and about for a while. Will be blogging though!

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@Botany2021

4 years

Common Whitlowgrass, Erophila verna, Kent 070321 #WhiteBrassicas for #WildFlowerHour

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@Botany2021

7 years

My finale tonight was a surprise Goatsbeard, not supposed to flower past October or before May (Harrap's). It was late afternoon as well, so lucky to find it open. Tragopogon pratensis, Swanscombe, Kent, 280118 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

5 years

The rather lovely Echium vulgare, Viper's Bugloss is back in flower. I don't know why gardeners don't grow this native plant. Doesn't need any watering of fertilisers and gives colour for months on end. Rye Harbour NR 010619

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@Botany2021

6 years

Anemone nemorosa, Wood Anemones now out in force, Matfield, Kent 01/04/18 for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

1 year

A striking red variant of Kidney Vetch. I've found all sorts of colour forms on the North Cornwall coast, not just the usual yellow ones. Anthyllis vulneraria, var coccinea, near Constantine Bay this evening.

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@Botany2021

1 year

Sneezewort by the car park Cornwall Botanical Group field trip to Goss Moor. Supposedly common throughout England, but hard to find sometimes. Achillea ptarmica

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@Botany2021

2 months

The first Bog Asphodels are brightening up boggy areas on Bodmin Moor today. #WildflowerHour Narthecium ossifragum

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@Botany2021

1 year

My star find this evening was an unexpected patch of the rare and endemic Cornish Ramping Fumitory, Gunver Head, #Cornwall this evening for #wildflowerhour Not previously recorded here, but it can pop up anywhere in West Cornwall if the ground is disturbed. Fumaria occidentalis

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@Botany2021

2 years

Beautiful wildflower filled rural road verge, or to some a mess that needs mowing & tidying up. I like messy and so does nature.

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@Botany2021

7 years

New monad for Orobanche crenata, Bean Broomrape, TQ6862 Paddlesworth 081017 for #wildflowerhour host plant not known

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@Botany2021

5 years

Some wildflowers I've spotted this last week from the car around Kent. Danish Scurvygrass, Sweet Violet, Common Whitlowgrass and Groundsel. I've been unable to get out much lately due to chronic back pain. (Library photos) @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

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@Botany2021

1 year

I think this is Juniper Haircap Moss, Polytrichum juniperinum, male plants "flowers" found on St Breock Downs #Cornwall in fog this evening. hs a species account.

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@Botany2021

6 years

new blog on #Ourworldisworthsaving - Part 3 - Fungi @Britnatureguide

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3 months

I was very pleaed to unexpectedly come across several Bastard Balm plants in flower today, gorgeous flowers. East Cornwall. #wildflowerhour Mellitis melissophyllum

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@Botany2021

7 years

Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis) High Elms Bromley 060318 a Kent RPR species.

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@Botany2021

7 years

No idea what my #favouritefind plant is, there are so many this year. Here's a few, all from Wales! Spiked Speedwell, Starry Saxifrage, Dune Pansy, Dune Helleborine @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany

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@Botany2021

3 months

A few pristine Heath Spotted Orchids still to be found in West Cornwall. #wildflowerhour Dactylorhiza maculata

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@Botany2021

6 years

By far the best find today was a single flowering spike of Man Orchid, Orchis anthropophora, in a new site for them. An endangered species, so very nice to see them form a new colony not on a reserve. Longfield, Kent 10/05/18

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@Botany2021

27 days

It's always a WOW moment when you come across Cornish Ramping Fumitory. It's big and went on for 20 metres or so along a field edge. 4th photo shows top petal colour change after pollination. Fumaria occidentalis #Cornwall Botany Group field, Gunwalloe today. #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

1 year

A big surprise were around 100 flowering Heath Spotted Orchids on the cliffs near St Agnes #Cornwall , a couple of weeks earlier than I anticipated. Lots more in bud to come. Dactylorhiza maculata subsp ericetorum for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

6 months

Less than 3 months away for these lovely ladies, so not currently flowering, but I thought, why not post something cheerful? Post one of your favourite species in reply #cheermeupwithplants

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@Botany2021

6 years

Melmpyrum cristatum, Crested Cow-wheat, a very rare plant, North Essex 230618 for #wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany

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@Botany2021

6 years

The 1st flowering orchid of the season goes to the Early Purple Orchid this year, Westfield, Sussex, road verge 21/04/18. Mind you if I had gone to other venues it could easily have been Green Winged or Early Spiders!

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@Botany2021

7 years

Despite seeing many amazing Thai orchids today at Kew Gardens, I still think our own native wild orchids are even more amazing and varied, we should look after them! Native Lizard Orchid - Non native Orchid

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@Botany2021

2 years

Don't they look a nice couple.... Greater Butterfly and Southern Marsh Orchids. Near Bodmin Moor 160622

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@Botany2021

6 years

As I haven't been able to get out and photograph anything recently due to ill health, I thought I'd post some wildflower combos of months passed by. Hope you enjoy them. You could have some fun naming the species?

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@Botany2021

2 years

Some coastal flowers from Cornwall this last week for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

5 years

I haven't been out botanising since November due to poor health, but I still notice plants around me. These inhabit a pavement crack near my local post office, escaped from a hanging basket several years ago. Persicaria capitata and Lobelia erinus in 2 colour forms.

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@Botany2021

2 years

More plants flowering earlier this week were Sea and Portland Spurges, Tall Ramping Fumitory and a white form of Common Storksbill, North Cornwall coast for #wildflowerhour

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@Botany2021

5 years

I think this is an Ivy Bee, Colletes hederae, on Wild Thyme and Squinancywort, St Margarets at Cliffe 140919

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@Botany2021

6 years

Ophrys sphegodes var flavescens, Early Spider Orchid, @SamphireHoe1997 Kent 29/04/18 this variant lacks most of the purple pigments of the usual flower form

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@Botany2021

5 months

There's a special form of Common Spotted Orchid only found in a few western areas, such as here in Cornwall, near Tintagel. This is Dactylorhiza fuchsii var hebredensis from last June. It's always small and always this colour. I hope to revisit later this year.