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Last Update: Monday, November 11, 2024 - 12:45
Joanna has heard back from several referees to whom she had sent specimens:
Rumex x dufftii (R. obtusifolius x sanguineus) from Strolllamus has been confirmed. This is only the third record for...
Neil has re-found Osmunda regalis (Royal Fern) in NG42, the first record there since 1992, plus Vicia sylvatica (Wood Vetch) and Viburnum opulus (Guelder-rose) in NG41, the first records there since...
To finish off the Skye Botany Group season Joanna arranged two loch visits. Firstly, we went to Loch Cleap in the north of Skye to try and re-find Elatine hexandra (Six-stamened Waterwort), last seen...
I have been away but there are things to report:
Skye Botany Group went to Ord in search of uncommon plants not recorded in the 10 km square NG61 since before 2000: Atriplex praecox (Early Orache...
A fine day and low water at 1 pm meant that I could undertake the Fladday trip I had been planning for weeks. I wanted to check for Sparganium emersum (Unbranched Bur-reed), but found only S....
Monday was the only dry day in living memory, at least up until the evening, so I had a look at another patch of the Trottenish Ridge, hoping to re-find old records of Koenigia islandica (Iceland-...
The weather has been almost uniformly wet and windy for weeks, but I managed to make the late-season return visit to a Raasay croft that I had promised. I added thirteen plants to my June list,...
Joanna has been busy spotting aliens with the highlight being Erica ciliaris (Dorset Heath), new to Scotland – a garden escape in a Harlosh ditch.
Erica ciliaris (Dorset Heath) Images: J....
