Blog Entries from Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
Plant Records (
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James has added Dryopteris affinis subsp. paleaceolobata (a Scaly Male-fern) to the vice-county list from a site at Dunvegan. Finley has found Acaena ovalifolia (Two-spined Acaena) near The Storr,…
There were plant records on this hill made in 2012, which for some reason I had doubted. I can’t remember why now, though I think it had to do with records made by the same recorder elsewhere that I…
I noticed that a couple of tetrads in NG42 in the northern and eastern parts of Glen Brittle Forest were rather low in taxa recorded post-1999 (NG42C: 86 and NG42D: 80). After a visit a couple of…
Not Tobacco (
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A few weeks ago a friend at Oscaig, here on Raasay, asked me f I knew what a large plant was in her garden as she had not planted it. I didn’t know. The large leaves made me think of tobacco, though…
July Plants (
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Bill has been on a visit to Skye chasing plants from my Rare Plants Register and sent around 350 records including new hectad records for Pilosella aurantiaca (Fox-and-cubs) in NG46 and Myrrhis…
Recent Moths (
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In the garden, on a nettle, I found this fine caterpillar – the Spectacle Moth. A trap last week caught 94 moths including two Swallowtail Moths, a species I have not had here before:
Raasay’s temperate rainforest has been listed as a priority area by the Scottish Government as part of £3 million funding to protect biodiversity and build ecosystem resilience to climate change. See…
Seth has found Chilean Hard Fern (Parablechnum cordatum/Blechnum cordatum/Blechnum chilense) well naturalised near the car park at Dunvegan. New to the vice-county!
