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Botanist and Ecologist. BSBI county recorder for Wiltshire VC 7 & 8.
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialThanks Mark, I'll look that one up when I'm back home. All the plants in this section looked like it so it wasn't a one off.
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialWhy of course! Not a holiday without 100s of plant photos and many plant samples
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialBupleurum tenuissimum, slender hares ear growing in profusion in the lawn of my holiday villa.
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialDianthus carthusianorum, Carthusian pink on the edge of an olive grove in Tuscany.
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialI love the hat! 🖤
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialWhat a wonderful summer we had!
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialOn holiday in Tuscany and Erigeron bonariensis is abundant on the road verges, they have wine glass shaped inflorescences (very fitting for the region) and purple tipped phyllaries. #wildflowerhour
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialForbidden soup for fairies!
@notfrangible.bsky.socialReposted by @ghostofdatura.bsky.socialPossibly my favourite plant, perhaps chiefly when it poses on lock gates and beside winding gear etc: Beggarticks Bidens frondosa along the Kennet & Avon canal at Devizes today
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialThis is very cool!
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialAn the weirdest thing I found today was Bolboschoenus maritimus with extremely long inflorescences. Anyone know why its growing like this? #wildflowerhour
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialEuphorbia stricta has wonderful warty seeds. #wildflowerhour
@ghostofdatura.bsky.socialMoving office locations means new areas to nose around at lunchtime. I found a population of Herniaria glabra which is a new vice county record.
