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Dave
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Self taught botanist living in Cornwall, formerly Kent. Hoping to spread the joys of nature to others through my posts. Cornwall blog at: https://sylvatica2022.blogspot.com/ Kent blog at: https://barbus59.blogspot.com/
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 11h
Mid to late May is the best time for the rarer species
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
On The Lizard, we get Leucanthemum vulgare subsp. vulgare var. nanum which is usually less then 6" tall, though the flower is the usual size, makes it look very odd.
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
I found some flowering last week, but way to windy to photograph, tricky to get a good shot at the best of times, though you have got some good shots here.
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
The River Ottery at Canworthy Water, Cornwall today. It looks idyllic but the water quality was poor with lots of brown algae in the river from pollution, either from agriculture, sewage or both. Very few plants growing in the water itself.
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
Curly Pondweed in the River Ottery, Canworthy Water, Cornwall today. The leaf tips, slightly wavy leaves and strong serrations mean it can't be anything else, though it looked a bit odd compared to others I've seen in Cornwall.

Potamogeton crispus
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
Common Mouse-ear flowering at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour
The hairy peduncles (flower stalks) show this to be subspecies vulgare.

Cerastium fontanum
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
Meadowsweet still has a few plants in flower amongst hundreds along a rural road verge at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour

Filipendula ulmaria
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
An attractive but invasive plant, Himalayan Balsam, lining the banks of the River Ottery at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour (see ALT)

Impatiens glandulifera
The seed pods, when ripe, are explosive and catapault the seeds many metres away from the parent plant. The seeds also float and can quickly colonise river systems. It is illegal in the UK to sell this plant or cause it to spread outside of your garden as it is incredibly invasive. It smothers native vegetation and dies back completely in the Winter, leaving bare mud banks which allows excessive erosion and damage to river banks.
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
A roadside Fox and Cubs in flower at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour

Pilosella aurantiacum
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
A late flowering Common Vetch on a road verge at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour

Vicia sativa subsp segetalis
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
Some more plants flowering at Par Sands Cornwall from this last week for #wildflowerhour

Sea Rocket, Water Mint and Michaelmas Daisy
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 14h
Some plants flowering at Par Sands Cornwall from this last week for #wildflowerhour

Balm-leaved Figwort, Tall Tutsan, Sea Radish and Tansy
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
Tall Tutsan naturalised at Par, Cornwall today. Quite a common find in this area.

Hypericum x inodorum
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
Water Mint by a brackish stream at Par, Cornwall today.

Mentha aquatica
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
Sea Radish in flower at Par, Cornwall today.

Raphanus raphanistrum subsp maritimus
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
Balm-leaved Figwort flowering at Par, Cornwall today.

Scrophularia scorodonia
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
Michaelmas Daisy brightening up several parts of Par Sands in Cornwall today.

Symphyotrichum x versicolor
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
A Tansy colony having a second go at flowering at Par Sands today, Cornwall.

Tanacetum vulgare
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 2d
Sea Rocket going strong at Par Sands today, Cornwall.

Cakile maritima
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 3d
Common Flax in a tree well yesterday in Wadebridge
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 4d
Another one in my garden today in north Cornwall. Ichneumon Wasp possibly Pimpla rufipes or Endromopoda detrita
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 5d
@gavinbroad.bsky.social Hi Gavin, is it possible to ID this insect? This photo is all I have of it. North Cornwall today.
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 5d
Luckily I took a sample home and turns out this is Amaranthus hybridus (Green Amaranth).
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 5d
This seems to be a female Ichneumon extensorius wasp that I found in my back garden today in Wadebridge. There's only 1 prior record for it in Cornwall from 1906, so any knowledgable insect person's input would be most welcome.
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 5d
In a field of Sunflowers, I found a solitary Thorn Apple in fruit, again, a likely seed contaminant when the sunflowers were sown. St. Endellion, Cornwall today.

Datura stramonium
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