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@sylvatica2024.bsky.social

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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Flowers, seedheads and rosettes of Sheep’s bit on the cliff wall of Mevagissey Harbour today.

Jasione montana

05.08.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, they do smell nice. Even nicer smell, was a patch of Spearmint nearby, smells just like the gum!

03.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, small, 4 petalled, white cabbage family flowers. Best not eat wild ones as most watercourses are polluted nowadays.

03.08.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A rural road going under a disused railway near St Dennis Cornwall today

03.08.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brooklime flowering on a wet road verge. Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Veronica beccabunga

03.08.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wood Sage flowering on a rural road verge in Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Teucrium scorodonia

03.08.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chinese Bramble in fruit, spread from nearby plantings on an industrial estate onto a nearby road verge.

Rubus tricolor

03.08.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Red-legged Shield-bug, Mid Cornwall today.

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A nice portrait of the leaves of Ivy-leaved Water Crowfoot in a stream. Mid Cornwall today.

Ranunculus hederacea

03.08.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canary Grass on a woodland path. I traced its origins to birdseed put out for wild birds nearby. Pale Flax was also nearby.

Phalaris canariensis

03.08.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yellow Bartsia in a surprise habitat of a building site. Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Parentucelia viscosa

03.08.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watercress in a small stream, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Nasturtium officinale

03.08.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Water Mint in flower, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Mentha aquatica

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Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil in damp grassland, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Lotus pedunculatus

03.08.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jersey Cudweed, on overgrown car park aggregate. Mid Cornwall today.

Laphangium luteoalbum

03.08.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar on an Epilobium foodplant. Mid Cornwall today.

03.08.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oval Sedge I think. Mid Cornwall today.
Carex leporina

03.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent

02.08.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finishing off Cornwall Botany for July at sylvatica2022.blogspot.com I hope you like the selection of plants featured.

31.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A retail park Great Mullein atop a Cornish hedge in Bodmin today.

Verbascum thapsus

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Phone pics of Chamomile in the short turf of a church car park. St Eval Cornwall today.

Chamaemelum nobile

28.07.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The variant of False Oat Grass with basal bulbs. Harlyn Bay Cornwall today.

Arrhenatherum elatius var bulbosum

28.07.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An app is telling me this is a Common Carder Bee, which it probably is. North Cornwall today.

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It was good enough for me to stop and photograph it, much deeper colour than usual.

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Yes, many are white too.

27.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scenery from today's recording walk in North Cornwall showing different habitats.

27.07.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The seed pods of Tufted Vetch, North Cornwall today.

Vicia cracca

27.07.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Swinecress in seed, North Cornwall today.

Lepidium coronopus

27.07.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mating Dock Bugs on Broad-leaved Dock. North Cornwall today.

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Nettle-leaved Goosefoot from an arable field corner that escaped spraying. North Cornwall today.

Chenopodiastrum murale

27.07.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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