Common loosestrife, lysmachia vulgaris, I think this is the wild one rather than the garden escapee 🌱
#WildflowerHour #SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling

Common loosestrife, lysmachia vulgaris, I think this is the wild one rather than the garden escapee 🌱
#WildflowerHour #SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling
A small cluster of the developing #Fruits of Snowberry, Symphoricarpus albus with one tiny pink flower remaining; this naturalised shrub is widespread in our local hedgerows
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Loads of polliantors enjoying the Buddleja around Dún Laoghaire at the moment, including this bumblebee. #wildflowerhour
So many #fruits out there for #WildflowerHour . All these from the hedgerows around the outskirts of my Dorset village. Mostly natives with a few escapees. See ALT text for details. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
The sloes are definitely early this year - I have already harvested enough for a couple of litres of gin… #WildFlowerHour #Fruits
Dove's-foot Crane's-bill (Geranium molle)
#Cymraeg: pig yr aran; troed y golomen; garanbig maswaidd
#Kernewek: gelvin garan
#Liverpool
#WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday / bob dydd Sul.
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European Beech, Fagus sylvatica, where the #Fruits (nuts) are protected by spiky hard brown cases
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Lots of blackberries this year, although they're not very big 🌱
#WildflowerHour #Fruits
Rose-hips
#Cymraeg: egroes; afalau'r bwci; aeron marchfieri; mwcog; ogfaen; bochgoch; bochau cochion; hadau march mieri; eirin y meirch; grawn mieri Mair
#Kernewek: agrows; mor an Werhes
#Liverpool
#WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday / bob dydd Sul
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Hedgerow damsons and plums #WildFlowerHour #Fruits
Fine rosehips of wild roses, and drought-stricken sloes #wildflowerhour #fruits
A late entry for #WildFlowerHour #SeedHeads - broad-leaved helleborine at Coulter’s Dean today
One of the rock sea lavenders still just about flowering today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Another nice plant I found at #WWT #WelneyReserve was tasteless water-pepper Persicaria mitis. This was growing by one of the dipping platforms. Only my second encounter with the species. it's not common ... plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
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Wild honeysuckle berries
#Cymraeg: aeron y gwyddfid gwyllt
#Kernewek: mor an wydhvos
#Liverpool #langsky #fruits
#WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday / bob dydd Sul.
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A selection of #Fruits for this week's #WildflowerHour challenge, from Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire:
Top half: Blackberries, Crab Apple, Cuckoo Pint, Rowan, Wild Rose Hips and Spindle
Lower half: Holly, Elder, Wayfaring Tree and Common Hawthorn
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Plummy tart fruitiness ready to bottle.🍷
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