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Last Update: Sunday, June 5, 2022 - 18:26
This post concerns vascular plant & charophyte records only. Looking at records to date at the hectad level gives some idea of where to concentrate in this final year of recording for Atlas 2020...
Quite a long gap really, since I last wrote on this site. However, a review of plant recording in VC104 for July-December 2018 is on my BSBI page. With Jim McIntosh I have recently completed a...
The weather has been so good recently that I have been tempted out to wander on Raasay. Two days ago I spotted two plants of Glebionis segetum (Corn Marigold) in flower on a road verge near...
Following my last post I went looking for Knopper galls on the oaks near the Old Manse here on Raasay but as usual there were no acorns – so no galls (and yes, I know these are caused by a gall...
Recently, this Nettle-tap was on the outside of the house:
Common Nettle-tap
A few days later I went toward Oskaig to look for Ectoedemia argyropeza (Virgin Pigmy) on fallen aspen leaves which Seth...
Spoiler alert: Special Interest only!
I collected 11 specimens this year around VC 104 and sent them to David McCosh who says they are nearly all new 10km square records.
The most interesting was...
We don’t usually see snow in October:
View from the garden
But the weeds are still flowering in the vegetable garden at sea level:
(All of these are rare locally.)
I have been away for a month and since my return the weather has not been great. And there is lots to do in the garden. During the low season I have a number of small projects that I intend to...
I found this on dead stems of Schoenoplectus lacustris (Common Club-rush) at Loch Lonachan last month:
Fungus on Schoenoplectus lacustris
Bruce says it “seems to be the imperfect stage of...
On Thursday I joined Skye Nature Group’s excursion to look for fungi, though as usual we looked at other things as well. Near the Crinodendron hookerianum (Lantern Tree) we found a fairly...
