David Elston
@1davidelston.bsky.social
I will use BlueSky to share discoveries of and observations about higher plants, mostly in and around Aberdeen, Scotland
Ouch. Probably many unhappy neighbouring landowners too!
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Ouch. Probably many unhappy neighbouring landowners too!
Perhaps you should subscribe to an acclimatisation plan involving cold showers and cooling fan on max followed by manual dexterity and acute vision tasks? Doubtless the Scottish Tourist Board would tell you it's completely unnecessary, but...
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Perhaps you should subscribe to an acclimatisation plan involving cold showers and cooling fan on max followed by manual dexterity and acute vision tasks? Doubtless the Scottish Tourist Board would tell you it's completely unnecessary, but...
I'm sure Poland and Clement will have a character that can be used to separate Salix from Vaccinium....
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm sure Poland and Clement will have a character that can be used to separate Salix from Vaccinium....
I agree, NB also the blunt-tipped leaves.
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I agree, NB also the blunt-tipped leaves.
Serrated wintergreen forms clonal patches, so several options for quantification. Do you count patches, flowering stems, leaf rosettes or estimate patch areas? Regardless, it's a lovely plant and an advantage of taking measurements is that you may discover other interesting things in the process!
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Serrated wintergreen forms clonal patches, so several options for quantification. Do you count patches, flowering stems, leaf rosettes or estimate patch areas? Regardless, it's a lovely plant and an advantage of taking measurements is that you may discover other interesting things in the process!
Yup. Looks good to me, well spotted!
September 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yup. Looks good to me, well spotted!
Plant distributions provide an endless source of wonder, and the BSBI Plant Atlas 2020 online site is a great resource for seeing them!
plantatlas2020.org/atlas
plantatlas2020.org/atlas
PlantAtlas
plantatlas2020.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Plant distributions provide an endless source of wonder, and the BSBI Plant Atlas 2020 online site is a great resource for seeing them!
plantatlas2020.org/atlas
plantatlas2020.org/atlas
I'm the BSBI VCR for 91 (Kincardineshire) and 93 (North Aberdeenshire) so my 70 refers only to higher plants. I'd imagine that if considering recording adequacy more broadly then some breakdown by taxonomic groupings would be required.
September 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I'm the BSBI VCR for 91 (Kincardineshire) and 93 (North Aberdeenshire) so my 70 refers only to higher plants. I'd imagine that if considering recording adequacy more broadly then some breakdown by taxonomic groupings would be required.
In VC91 I use 70 taxa as a target, and have very few tetrads to get over the line (excepting edge squares and a couple in the uplands species-poor). In VC93 that target leaves over 200 in the 'to do' camp, so I'm focussing on under 30s. For the 3 just visited, the numbers of were 2, 2 and 0.
September 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In VC91 I use 70 taxa as a target, and have very few tetrads to get over the line (excepting edge squares and a couple in the uplands species-poor). In VC93 that target leaves over 200 in the 'to do' camp, so I'm focussing on under 30s. For the 3 just visited, the numbers of were 2, 2 and 0.