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Roger_TL45Y
@rogerhorton.bsky.social
Retired scientist. Prone to 🌱 fads: Artemisas|Calamints|Crataegus|Medicks|Poplars|Goldilocks|Solanum|Dipsacus|Ferns. FLS. Cambridge UK but often in Suffolk 📷: Whooper Swans at Lakenheath. TL45Y =tetrad (2x2km square) round Cherry Hinton. ❤️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 & Berlin
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There's a petition for the Microbiology BSc course too: Microbiology - c.org/YXLh57RZyy
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop the removal of Microbiology at the University of Nottingham
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Great work, and I can see that the two casual records I entered on Saturday morning arrived successfully!
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The dark pink/red forms seem to have thrived around Cambridge for several years, far better than when planted in my garden.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I've signed this petition as Nottingham was my first university and at Sutton Bonington brave attempts were made to teach me #botany via Hubbard's Grasses and Clapham Tutin & Warburg (both of which I still have) but I was distracted by microbiology. 😉
Come on @uniofnottingham.bsky.social!
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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All back online I'm pleased to say.
Thanks to the CEH gnomes for toiling away in the bit caves all weekend.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Thanks! I really got carried away, there are ten or twenty more if you like. 🙄
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Nice photos! If you zoom in you can see what hairs there are are lying down or as @bsbibotany.bsky.social says ‘with sparse, appressed hairs’ making it the common subspecies Solanum nigrum nigrum.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Think you are right Peter. The stems look quite dark and not noticeably hairy (any hairs probably lying flat).
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM