Cornish hedgerows are racing towards their peak 👌💚

On the way into the National Aquarium in Plymouth I was a tad distracted by the diminutive army of Rue-leaved Saxifrage on the steps outside…

Top quality pavement plant! 🫡

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I found Hypocreopsis rhododendri - Hazel Gloves in #Trusham woods. A very rare fungus. Red Data List species, temperate rainforest indicator. Go me!

Is it possible to look semi-normal when speaking? Not in my experience! 🙃

Lovely to see you all Marj. See you on Friday! 🌿

The extraordinary, bewildering, and ecologically tragic story of Hoads Wood.

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The woods are waking up!

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Sea Mouse-ear (Cerastium diffusum) 💚

Only two prior records from this site, both from doyens of Cornish botany - Colin French in 2011 and Len Margetts in 1963. Presumably not recorded much because of its tiny size rather than actual scarcity.

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Quite surprised to find a few spikes of Orobanche (presumed to be O. minor subsp. maritima) emerging today. Far earlier than I’ve found them before.

And LOOK at that deep purple! 💜

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Colt’s-foot (Tussilago farfara) emerging from the white sands of Towan beach on the Roseland Peninsula.

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The world is waking up with #SignsOfSpring .

I walked in an ancient wood tonight where Wood Anemone, Wood Sorrel, Barren Strawberry and Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage are all beginning to flower. A delicate prelude to the avalanche of Bluebells to come…

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I check this ditch every year and this is the earliest flowering Cuckoo Flower I can recall.

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) is named as they bloom when the cuckoos arrive. Though if any arrived in this weather I imagine they’d just turn around again!

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