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Old 30-06-2009, 06:27 PM
davidbr davidbr is offline
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Re: A 2009 plant-hunter's diary

North Norfolk coast: 23rd - 27th June

By now I was well on track to meet my target of 100 additions, so when we moved on to Salthouse things slowed down a bit. Greater Sea-kale (Crambe cordifolia) was an excellent find in the Cley NWT reserve car park; even though hundreds of people must have walked past it every day, the reserve staff had no idea this potential county first grew on their doorstep

(Greater Sea-kale, Crambe cordifolia)

Nearby, in a brackish saline pool by the Cley beach car park, was (assuming I've ID'd it correctly...) perhaps one of the most boring plants in the world. Beaked Tasselweed (Ruppia maritima), against my shoe because that was the only way I could get a decent photo

(Beaked Tasselweed, Ruppia maritima)

Frosted Orache (Atriplex laciniata) was a pleasant surprise on the sandy beach at Titchwell, I also spotted a couple of traditional blue Larkspur (Consolida ajacis) plants by the A149 at Burnham Norton and, at the Holt Lowes SSSI, a single Great Sundew (Drosera anglica) amongst dozens of the common D. rotundifolia)

(Frosted Orache, Atriplex laciniata)

(Larkspur, Consolida ajacis)

(Great Sundew, Drosera anglica)
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