I saw some last week in Spain in my dessert bowl if that counts?

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I was thinking exactly the same thing on my walk in east Norfolk this evening.

Isn’t it just! You don’t even need a snorkel, just a decent pair of polaroids. I’ve seen some large tench and pike in there.

I last checked it in 2023.

P. lucens is much more widespread than P. perfoliatus in the Broads but there are good populations of the latter in the Wensum and Yare through Norwich. P. x salicifolius occurs at one location in the Broads, where this BSBI coincidence map shows the two parents are found together.

Purple Loosestrife and Orange Balsam colour clash at Thorpe Marshes NR.

I've seen it in a few smaller drains in the Fens and the Broads, but definitely does best in wider and deeper IDB drains. Worth looking for P x fluitans as probably under-recorded. Richard Lansdown found it at Upton Fen in 2022 for the first time and I took this photo of all 3 taxa in 2023.

Thanks for the tip James. I always check Sium for Lixus paraplecticus but yet to find...

Photobombed by the Great Yarmouth to Norwich train.