#WildflowerHour #fruits Dog roses, Rosa canina agg with sepals turning down against the hips and falling before they fully ripen. Hedgerow near Monmouth.

Crab apple - Malus sylvestris from the hedgerow with a reasonable crop despite the drought. #fruits #Wildflowerhour

Visited #WWT #WelneyReserve to follow up recent reports of Greater Dodder. The #BSBI database shows the plant, which is Nationally Scarce, scattered over southern England, but with a hotspot (if you can have a hotspot with few records) in the Fens plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9.... #wildflowerhour

We’ve had a lot of rain & I’ve spotted lots of blooms as well as #fruits for #wildflowerhour this week. Clockwise from top left, Carline Thistle, Common Knapweed, Common Toadflax, Hawthorn, Red Valerian, Rosehips, Yarrow, Ox-eye Daisy, Annual Cornflower & centre, Foxglove.

Traveller's-joy was one of many species that distracted me on today's walk, and 100th species for @bsbibotany.bsky.social #100PlantsChallenge 🎉 Finished just before term restarts for masters yr2! #WildflowerHour

Enjoyed trying to ID local plants - lots more to get my head round some day.

Rowan and Wild service tree for the #fruits challenge both in local hedgerows. #Wildflowerhour

Crataegus monogyna. my namesake. Abundant this year, despite the drought
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Malus toringo sargentii, which I am aware has a number of synonyms. These small red fruits are mouthful for hungry winter blackbirds and thrushes. And in April, pollen and nectar for bumblebees (and honeybees).
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Malus Butterball
looks to me to be pretty rich in carotenoids
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Malus Evereste - still with the anthocyanins
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#wildflowerhour #seedheads went down to South Norwood country park and found hogweed and teasels looking very atmospheric

#wildflowerhour #stillflowering pineappleweed, greater willowherb, michaelmas daisies and (just started flowering) ivy

#wildflowerhour #fruits hawthorn, bramble, bittersweet and elder

Rosa rugosa.
these red fruits, as with other red berries, are nutrient rich, with 9 carotenoids, & abundant vitamins A, C & E. Wellbeing woo for birds & small mammals. The Rosaceae are particularly generous in this respect; flowers first for pollen and nectar.
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Feed the birds. Feed my soul. Rowan, the gift tree to protect every newborn. I never see them without my heart recalling this.
A rowan like a lipsticked girl.
Between the by-road and the main road
from Song, Seamus Heaney
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A rash of cute (but don’t touch) Small Nettle Urtica urens seedlings on ground opened by the drought. Geranium molle and other annuals surviving as seed observed doing the same after the recent rain #wildflowerhour #NorfolkFloraGroup

A little early for #wildflowerhour, had such a lovely day yesterday visiting these little beauties! It was wonderful to see that the Autumn Lady’s Tresses had finally emerged after all the rain, always a bittersweet moment, the last orchid of the year to flower 🥰

Potamogeton x cooperi. (P. crispus x P. perfoliatus).
A ridiculously beautiful Pondweed 😍
Lateral veins, leaf attachment and toothing intermediate between parents. Also has a compressed stem with slight furrows either side from crispus parent (much more obvious on a cross section). #wildflowerhour