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Pete Flood
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Musician and field botanist
New favourite sedge!
June 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Proliferodiscus pulveraceus and Stictis radiata. And what they look like from afar. I love the way that a few spots on a twig can become a wildly colourful world when you look at it under a hand lens. Essentially (and stupid as it sounds) it’s my prescription for the blues, every time.
January 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I found some in central Hants too - took me a while as it looked completely different to the neat, showy tufts I’ve found before in the summer
December 31, 2024 at 4:39 PM
A terrace of Whorl-grass comes close though!
December 30, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Nothing beats a glossy emerald drift of Stream Water-crowfoot- back in this stretch of the River Arle in quantity after decades of scarcity
December 30, 2024 at 2:41 PM
A curl of Water Figwort in bloom - a late addition to the #NewYearPlantHunt list
December 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Straggly tufa-encrusted Cratoneuron filicinum from the banks of the Itchen at Winchester while waiting for a mot. Common name is Fern-leaved Hook-moss but this form was more Hookless Drab-mo. Stout nerve (pic 2), big auricles on branch leaves (2), rhizoids (3) and paraphyllia (4) give the game away
December 29, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Walked the perimeter of Alresford today and found 44 species for the #NewYearPlantHunt
Most surprising: Water Avens
Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell
Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year)
Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)
December 29, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Thousands of plants of Jersey Cudweed lining a road verge near Southampton Water. I guess it’s the botanical equivalent of a £100,000,000 bat tunnel: joke ecology, wasting everyone’s time and driving disaffection with conservation across the board. Hoping NE delist it asap
December 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Out looking at Spartina meadows on the edge of Southampton Water yday. Loving all the ergotic Common Cord-grass - but the bright orange rust on the ergot sclerotia is new to me - anyone got a name for this peculiar thing?
December 14, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Dingy green 1mm ‘tongues’ growing with the liverwort Microlejeunea ulicina on Willow bark in wet woodland. Grazed/old slime mould sporocarps, right? Right??? If so, which species/genera have multiple stems that coalesce halfway up? In the books I have most species have a discoid hypothallus instead
November 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Breathing opportunity
November 27, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Sheffield station, waiting for Dionne. Initially far more drawn to the vacant lot than the water feature but - Bryum pseudotriquetrum/ old hand lens in pocket - hours of fun
November 17, 2024 at 11:34 AM
…this particular lizard for instance
November 15, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Initiating proceedings here with a pic of some moss on pony dung. Not sure if it’s a comment on 2024, Twitter, or just finding gorgeousness in unexpected places, but here’s the wonderful, holly-leaved Splachnum ampullaceum
November 14, 2024 at 2:58 PM