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Drumboe Wood, Ballybofey.

 

Bright but cool.

Following the recent road-laying to facilitate the clear-felling of coniferous plantation, I feared that the Cerodontha sylvatica would have been wiped out. Amazingly, the Woodrush plants had escaped by a matter of centimetres. I found a few mines in the usual spot, but none in dozens of adjacent plants: this species doesn't spread very quickly.

 

This would make a brilliant quiz picture. It's the female flower - and future cone - of Larch. I found the flower head on the path and on looking upwards could see the pink dots on the highest branches. Flower head about 1 cm. across.

Staying with tree flowers. These are the female (left) and male (right) flowers of Hazel.

    

 

And my first fully-open Lesser Celandine flower of the year.

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