James Rowland

Nicotiana sylvestris growing as a pavement weed in Norwich this week. First record for either Norfolk vice county. Species on the increase? @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #Norfolk

Thanks Andrew!

Thanks Andy!

New sawfly larva for me the other day. Have a suspicion this might be a Wild Rose Fusehorn (Arge ochropus). Any ideas @andymus.bsky.social #sawflies #insects

Thanks for the reply Sim.

Thanks for sharing Sim. Been to Fairlight Glen before but have never made it down to Covehurst Bay.

Something funky going on here! Small Scabious with a series of unified stems that collectively produced a solitary flowerhead, that then split out into several solitary stems again, each with its own terminal flowerhead... must be the beer in Norfolk!

Thanks Ross. Seems to be a lot around at the moment.

When combined, both these features are larger than your typical Japanese but smaller than your giant knotweed. Therefore this plant is most likely to be the hybrid Bohemian knotweed. #invasiveinsects #invasiveplants (4/4)

The Bohemian knotweed in these photos has a mixture of the squared leaf bases of Japanese and the cordate leaf bases of giant knotweed. The size of the plant and its leaves are also characteristic, the plant is around 3.5m tall and the some of the leaves are larger than 17cm. (3/4)

In this instance, the species of knotweed is not Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) but is actually Bohemian knotweed (Reynoutria x bohemica) the hybrid between giant knotweed (Reynoutria sachalinensis) and Japanese knotweed as it has features intermediate of both parents. (2/4)

Double whammy while on holiday in New England. Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) on knotweed (Reynoutria sp.). Both are non-native species in the northeastern US. The Japanese beetle first arrived in the US on plants from Japan as part of 1916 World’s Fair. #invasiveinsects #invasiveplants (1/4)

Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Oh dear @nationaltrust.org.uk how have you got this so terribly wrong. Please contact me directly if you want to create a wildflower meadow & not an annual cornfield area. @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Interesting find for #wildflowerhour. Found Sedum pallidum naturalised in mown grassland in Kent. New to Kent (either vice county) and eighth record on the BSBI DDb. #Kent #Sedum #BSBI @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Thanks for having a look Alex. Yes the first picture is the primocane.

More photos (2/2).

Interesting bramble growing in scrub next to some ancient woodland in Kent at the weekend. Bit of a bramble novice but perhaps Series Glandulosi @bramblebotanist.bsky.social? (1/2)

Chaenotheca hispidula, a really smart pinhead lichen at Houghton Park today. Immersed thallus, greeny yellow pruinose base to fruiting head, and relatively large globose spores. First county record since 1974.

Thanks Anthony!

Thanks Sim!

Thanks Rob!

Any thoughts @aspenecology.com @robyaxley.bsky.social @fayrnhawk.bsky.social

Usnea medulla is K+ yellow, Pd (not attempted) and UV (not attempted). Appears to be both sorediate and isidiate, medulla was not lax and holdfast black. Given it was found on an Oak twig and the lack of U. wasmuthii records in the county. The species is likely U. subfloridana. (2/2).

Came across this Usnea on a broken Oak twig in some secondary woodland bordering a disused sand quarry in Kent. Think it might be Usnea subfloridana. (1/2)

This also seemed to turn up in my house last year.

Two beetles while out and about today. A female black-headed cardinal beetle (Pyrochroa coccinea) and a lesser stag beetle larva (Dorcus parallelipipedus). @colsocbi.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social #beetle

Common vetch (Vicia sativa ssp. nigra) and heath speedwell (Veronica officinalis). #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social

Military Orchid

Purple Milk-vetch

Breckland Birthwort

Rare Spring Sedge

A great few day pointing at special Breckland plants with Wilts Bot Soc: Military Orchid Orchis militaris, Purple Milk-Vetch Astragalus danicus, Breckland Birthwort Aristolochia hirta and Rare Spring Sedge Carex ericetorum #wildflowerhour

New plant for me growing at the end of my street. Turns out it’s also new to Suffolk (either vice county)! Hirsute Garlic (Allium trifolatium) can be separated from the closely related species by hairs at edge of leaves, tepals tinged pink and yellow anthers. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social