9th October |
Original Hedgerow, leg 1.
Scattered showers, especially when I was taking pictures. |
A solitary Dandelion was worth a shot. Nice colour on a dull day. |
And then the shock of the season so far: a Common Dog Violet - Viola riviniana - in flower. This is approximately 6 months late. The verge was cut back severely in June this year, so the regrowth might have stimulated the flowering process. I also note that the day length is not too dissimilar from that in April, when the flowers would be expected.
The second image is a seedpod from an earlier flowering. |
It's been a very good year for fungi in general and the Horse Mushroom in particular. This specimen was 12 cm. across.
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Marsh Cudweed grows in the central rut in the middle of the path. Past its best, now, but the flowers never amount to much.
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A nice batch of large Coprinus atramentarius from under the Hawthorn. |
One of the very few Agromyzid flies to make mines in Nettle: Agromyza anthracina. I'd have thought nettles would be an excellent place to make a mine. |
The tiny, tightly-closed flowers of Pale Persicaria - Persicaria lapathifolia - tend to open when damp. |
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