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24-04-2008, 08:20 PM
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| | | Cowslips or Oxlips?
I thought you might like to see this lovely verge of Cowslips (Oxlips?) that I photographed the other day near to Dorchester, Dorset. Just sitting there at the side of the road on a roundabout! 
Now, are they Cowslips or Oxlips?
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24-04-2008, 08:22 PM
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
Cowslips I'd say
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24-04-2008, 08:27 PM
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
Here is a picture of the leaves and stem as well. Thought it might help. 
Jane |
24-04-2008, 08:29 PM
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
They are cowslips Jane, albeit tall ones!
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24-04-2008, 08:31 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bewdley, Worcestershire
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
One has popped up in my meadow "yee"  and i'd also go with cow too! Funnily enough theres no slip to be found!
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24-04-2008, 08:34 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
Thanks. I was hoping they were. I haven't seen them in such numbers at the side of the road before. I just had to stop the car and photograph them.... no one else seemed to have even noticed. I got some very funny looks.
Here is one I took on my tummy as a car sped past!  Priumula veris it is then!
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24-04-2008, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
Well taken snaps and should have mentioned how good they look all bunched together! 
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24-04-2008, 08:41 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
Thanks Jez. It was pretty overcast, but sometimes that really suits a flower like this, and makes the colour zing in the gloom.
Cheered me up
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24-04-2008, 11:19 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Cheshire, UK
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
Oxlips are woodland plants and grow in just a few woods in east Anglia. It is one of our rare plants.
What you can sometimes see which is confusing is the False Oxlip (Primula x polyantha) which is the hybrid between the Cowslip and a Primrose. |
27-04-2008, 09:47 AM
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| | | Re: Cowslips or Oxlips?
I managed to find a wood with some in only the other day. Very different to cowslips now I have seen them for real. According to the site notice board there are just 100 sites left with this native flower in them. | | | |
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