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Originally Posted by Tiggrx  These species are all sown for game cover and it can be very interesting looking through fields like this. I have never managed to find the Gold-of-pleasure though. |
I remember reading in an old wild flower book that Gold-of-pleasure used to be grown as a crop and was a common casual, but according to
The Flora of the Bristol Region there's only been one record in the area, of a single plant, in the past fifty or so years.
I suppose like a lot of these species, as cleaning processes in corn & in waste have improved, so the aliens have died out. A real shame - I'd love to be able to go back in time to the days vast arrays of casuals from all over the world turned up by woollen mills and on rubbish dumps
