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26-07-2008, 08:24 PM
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| | | Tiny white flowers
Can someone help me identify this plant found growing today on a ride in mixed woodland on the berks/hants border. Tiny flowers about 5mm across 
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26-07-2008, 08:55 PM
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Enchanter's-nightshade, Circaea lutetiana ..... but no relation to the other nightshades.......! |
26-07-2008, 09:02 PM
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Thank you very much, Jenny. It's one I haven't noticed before, such a nice name!
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26-07-2008, 09:28 PM
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Its a great plant i love it....a lover of 'the dark damp shady places'...
there is some backstory to it too...something to do with historical dude but i cant remember it off the top of my head...
I have it growing around my victorian sink pond.....
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27-07-2008, 04:58 AM
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Pretty, but don't walk through it with socks, etc as you'll find you have dozens of the adhesive fruits attached to you! |
27-07-2008, 06:28 AM
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how do you tell it apart from the upland enchanter's nightshade? |
27-07-2008, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by leifus  how do you tell it apart from the upland enchanter's nightshade? | Alpine Enchanter's Nightshade has a limited distribution + is much smaller with hairless sepals + winged leaf stalks (petioles) are also hairless. Stalks downy on common species.
More widespread is the stable hybrid between the 2 species. In most of southern UK Circaea lutetiana will be the plant encountered. |
27-07-2008, 07:25 AM
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thanks aeshna |
27-07-2008, 09:39 AM
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I recognised this as Enchanter's Nightshade, having had it identified for me here on WAB a few weeks ago (I'm learning!). Since that first time I saw it, I've seen it quite frequently, it seems to be quite common in the woods and shady places around here. |
27-07-2008, 10:29 AM
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yeah there's loads in the woods near us - they obviously love the shade | | | |
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