This extraordinarily rainy winter in the Iberian Peninsula has Umbilicus rupestris popping up everywhere, including the cracks in these concrete stairs in #Lisbon🌧️🌱
#navelwort, #penny-pies #wallpennywort #botany #urbanbotany #concrete #umbilicusrupestris
#navelwort, #penny-pies #wallpennywort #botany #urbanbotany #concrete #umbilicusrupestris
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
This extraordinarily rainy winter in the Iberian Peninsula has Umbilicus rupestris popping up everywhere, including the cracks in these concrete stairs in #Lisbon🌧️🌱
#navelwort, #penny-pies #wallpennywort #botany #urbanbotany #concrete #umbilicusrupestris
#navelwort, #penny-pies #wallpennywort #botany #urbanbotany #concrete #umbilicusrupestris
February 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
navelwort is edible no?
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
navelwort is edible no?
Even the sloping top of a fence post is plenty sufficient for life to colonise, here in the form of a patch of navelwort.
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Even the sloping top of a fence post is plenty sufficient for life to colonise, here in the form of a patch of navelwort.
The hits just keep on coming, now with added navelwort.
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
The hits just keep on coming, now with added navelwort.
Lovely colonies of Navelwort here, aka pennywort or penny pies, Umbilicus rupestris, growing profusely in mossy stone walls and banks next to fields. I just read you can eat this in salads and it tastes like cucumber. They would also in past use it to treat scratches after removing the lower cuticle
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Lovely colonies of Navelwort here, aka pennywort or penny pies, Umbilicus rupestris, growing profusely in mossy stone walls and banks next to fields. I just read you can eat this in salads and it tastes like cucumber. They would also in past use it to treat scratches after removing the lower cuticle
Navelwort was one of the few flowering plants I recorded today near Liskeard Cornwall.
Umbilicus rupestris
#wildflowerhour
Umbilicus rupestris
#wildflowerhour
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Navelwort was one of the few flowering plants I recorded today near Liskeard Cornwall.
Umbilicus rupestris
#wildflowerhour
Umbilicus rupestris
#wildflowerhour
Navelwort, hazel and sea rocket in bloom across Nth Donegal this week for #wildflowerhour
January 11, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Navelwort, hazel and sea rocket in bloom across Nth Donegal this week for #wildflowerhour
Ivy-leaved Speedwell (subsp lucorum), Hottentot Fig naturalised all over a cliff, just open Navelwort flowers and naturalised Hedge Hebe which covered many areas of cliff here. Seaton/Downderry, Cornwall #newyearplanthunt today.
January 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Ivy-leaved Speedwell (subsp lucorum), Hottentot Fig naturalised all over a cliff, just open Navelwort flowers and naturalised Hedge Hebe which covered many areas of cliff here. Seaton/Downderry, Cornwall #newyearplanthunt today.
Navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris. Leaves palmately lobed, fleshy and with central dimple. Crenate leaf margin. Petiole and leaves hairless.
December 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris. Leaves palmately lobed, fleshy and with central dimple. Crenate leaf margin. Petiole and leaves hairless.
4. Species like Wilson's filmy fern, St. Patrick's cabbage, navelwort, hard fern, wood rush, the buckler ferns, wood sorrel, even Killarney fern, and many more...
It's all still there, waiting for the trees to return to recompose a rich rainforest ecosystem.
It's all still there, waiting for the trees to return to recompose a rich rainforest ecosystem.
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
4. Species like Wilson's filmy fern, St. Patrick's cabbage, navelwort, hard fern, wood rush, the buckler ferns, wood sorrel, even Killarney fern, and many more...
It's all still there, waiting for the trees to return to recompose a rich rainforest ecosystem.
It's all still there, waiting for the trees to return to recompose a rich rainforest ecosystem.
🌱🌾🌺🌿🌷🌻Illustrations inspired by Curtis's Botanical Magazine (started 1787 and still going strong!), painted by Thomas Pardoe around 1805 on creamware from Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, UK. #BUC2026
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🌱🌾🌺🌿🌷🌻Illustrations inspired by Curtis's Botanical Magazine (started 1787 and still going strong!), painted by Thomas Pardoe around 1805 on creamware from Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, UK. #BUC2026
Pennies from heaven...
Wall Pennywort (aka Navelwort) Umbilicus rupestris emerging from rocks at Cadair Ifan Goch today, where Bell Heather flowers try to pretend it's still July...
#WildFlowerHour in #NorthWales
Wall Pennywort (aka Navelwort) Umbilicus rupestris emerging from rocks at Cadair Ifan Goch today, where Bell Heather flowers try to pretend it's still July...
#WildFlowerHour in #NorthWales
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Pennies from heaven...
Wall Pennywort (aka Navelwort) Umbilicus rupestris emerging from rocks at Cadair Ifan Goch today, where Bell Heather flowers try to pretend it's still July...
#WildFlowerHour in #NorthWales
Wall Pennywort (aka Navelwort) Umbilicus rupestris emerging from rocks at Cadair Ifan Goch today, where Bell Heather flowers try to pretend it's still July...
#WildFlowerHour in #NorthWales
So busy with travelling v weather that I missed #FridayFerns - here are some from the walls of Waterford: Rustyback, Wall Rue, Maidenhair Spleenwort (with fab Navelwort) and Polypody.
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
So busy with travelling v weather that I missed #FridayFerns - here are some from the walls of Waterford: Rustyback, Wall Rue, Maidenhair Spleenwort (with fab Navelwort) and Polypody.
The witch walks and plucks wild omens, picks plants for the curing of tomorrow. Jack by the hedge, wood sorrel, the fertile hope of navelwort. The witch walks and harvests auguries, the gossip of trees. Her movement across the land is a magical act. – #EmilyCbanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The witch walks and plucks wild omens, picks plants for the curing of tomorrow. Jack by the hedge, wood sorrel, the fertile hope of navelwort. The witch walks and harvests auguries, the gossip of trees. Her movement across the land is a magical act. – #EmilyCbanting, 1982 #WitchSky
Missed this reply a few days ago. This is a sunken path between fields and is a well-known feature of this area of Normandie - the Bocage. These deep paths between fields providing access to other fields were a nightmare for the Allies pushing south after D-Day. Nowadays they provide fab walks.
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Missed this reply a few days ago. This is a sunken path between fields and is a well-known feature of this area of Normandie - the Bocage. These deep paths between fields providing access to other fields were a nightmare for the Allies pushing south after D-Day. Nowadays they provide fab walks.
Harts tongue fern and navelwort or pennypies growing in a wall
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Harts tongue fern and navelwort or pennypies growing in a wall
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September 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've arrived in Aberystwyth where I'll spend the winter learning fungal (meta-)barcoding and working on some theoretical background for my research on plant-pathogen networks in grasslands. It was nice to find a species new to me as I explored the town: the rust fungus Puccinia umbilici on Navelwort
September 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've arrived in Aberystwyth where I'll spend the winter learning fungal (meta-)barcoding and working on some theoretical background for my research on plant-pathogen networks in grasslands. It was nice to find a species new to me as I explored the town: the rust fungus Puccinia umbilici on Navelwort
It's hard to pick a #FavouritePlant from all those seen in a season but it is one with a mainly western distribution seen on our holiday in Devon that stands out in my mind. It is navelwort, here growing on a stony bank facing the sea. #wildflowerhour
September 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's hard to pick a #FavouritePlant from all those seen in a season but it is one with a mainly western distribution seen on our holiday in Devon that stands out in my mind. It is navelwort, here growing on a stony bank facing the sea. #wildflowerhour
The first one looks like Navalwort,
an interesting looking plant with some strange names
Umbilicus rupestris, navelwort | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens share.google/kq8zgpNqdrpR...
an interesting looking plant with some strange names
Umbilicus rupestris, navelwort | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens share.google/kq8zgpNqdrpR...
Umbilicus rupestris, navelwort | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
At the end of June 2016 Chris and I were in Chilham, Kent for the beautiful and dreamy countryside wedding of our friends, Simon and Clara. The day after the wedding in this magical old village, we we...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The first one looks like Navalwort,
an interesting looking plant with some strange names
Umbilicus rupestris, navelwort | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens share.google/kq8zgpNqdrpR...
an interesting looking plant with some strange names
Umbilicus rupestris, navelwort | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens share.google/kq8zgpNqdrpR...
The plant in the image is Umbilicus rupestris, commonly known as Wall Pennywort or Navelwort. At least according to google image search. Taken on a stone fort outside #Cahersiveen in #Kerry #Ireland
#savethegreen #photography #edible
#savethegreen #photography #edible
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The plant in the image is Umbilicus rupestris, commonly known as Wall Pennywort or Navelwort. At least according to google image search. Taken on a stone fort outside #Cahersiveen in #Kerry #Ireland
#savethegreen #photography #edible
#savethegreen #photography #edible
A damp (understatement!) walk Blackford Hill #Edinburgh this am. One of the few sites for Navelwort Umbilicus rupestris in E. Scotland; another one on Carlton Hill. Gone over, but clearly not doing so well as on 30/06/2020. @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @enhsplard.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A damp (understatement!) walk Blackford Hill #Edinburgh this am. One of the few sites for Navelwort Umbilicus rupestris in E. Scotland; another one on Carlton Hill. Gone over, but clearly not doing so well as on 30/06/2020. @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @enhsplard.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM