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Last Update: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 - 20:58
Several fellow-botanists (Joanna, Neil, Seth, Steve) have been looking at Cotoneasters for me, in particular those in the C. bullatus/rehderi group. I had been told that the fruit length was...
November has seen a rash of new 10 km square plant records, mostly garden escapes/throwouts/plantings but also a few others such as:
SpeciesHectadRecorder(s)Lemna minor (Duclweed)...
Skye Botany Group is undertaking a project with the Darwin Tree of Life project. We will be recording Polypodium (Polypody) species and a hybrid (we hope) plus two species of Ophioglossum (Adder...
I produced a poster for the Scottish Botanists’ Conference about plants new to vice-county 104 in 2021. I had it all prepared with thirteen species when, four days before the conference, Seth...
Neil on Eigg has sent me images of Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Ragweed) that has appeared in his garden, perhaps from birdseed. New to VC104.
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Ragweed) Image: N...
I have been away for two and a half weeks and there are a number of plant-related things that I have not got round to recording here. Firstly, Seth found Gentiana asclepiadea (Willow Gentian) growing...
A couple of days ago, we went to Brother’s Point on Skye to try and find Gentianella campestris (Field Gentian), last seen there in 1964 and last seen in the 10 km square NG56 in 1985. In this...
I had to get something checked by Highland Motors at Borve and so I was able to spend a couple of hours wandering along the road, then along the Lòn na h-Iolainn and back across the bog, all in the 1...
Prompted by Neil’s observations on Skye, I went looking for a couple of aphid species here on Raasay. I had to walk all of 200 metres from my front gate to find both:
Yarrow Aphid (...
A sub-group of Skye Botany Group went to Loch Connan and Loch Niarsco, principally to look for Potamogeton berchtoldii (Small Pondweed), which had been recorded in the NCC Loch Survey in 1989 but not...
