A beet, honeysuckle & cotoneaster for ID, please...

[davidbr]

Can anyone put a name to these three, photographed in Bristol, UK this year?




I'm fairly certain this is a Beta sp. but it doesn't look like B. vulgaris - the only other option I've come up with is Caucasian Beet Beta trigyna but I can't find a decent online image to compare with.




The plant above looks to be a bush honeysuckle, Lonicera sp but I can't match it to anything in the literature. This photo was taken back in July, I've since revisited the site (sadly minus my camera...) and the berries have ripened further to dark purplish/black.



This one might just be Stern's Cotoneaster C.sternanus which is common in the area, but I'm not used to seeing them in flower and never expected them to have such showy blooms. Is this anything different (taken in June of this year)?

[lizard orchid]

Your honeysuckle looks like Fly Honeysuckle { Lonicera xylosteum }, a native to Sussex but an alien elsewhere. I have even seen it in our market square here in Long Buckby , Northants of which I took cuttings and now a big bush of it grows in my back garden.

Brian Laney Botanist Northamptonshire.

[Tiggrx]

I don't think it is Fly Honeysuckle. The leaves don't look quite right to me and I think that has bright red berries.