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11-08-2005, 01:45 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: West Lothian in Scotland.
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| | | Another ID needed please.
My son, Duncan, took this picture while out walking near Carlisle. Can anyone identify it for him please?  |
11-08-2005, 02:31 PM
|  | Administrator and Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On the Malvern Hills
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| | | Hi Eileen,
This looks as though it's Himalayan Balsam. Imported in the middle of the 1800s to Kew gardens, it escaped and now it's everywhere. It's a major problem for many nature reserves because of the huge quantity and speed at which it grows - cutting off any chance for native species to grow in the same area. |
11-08-2005, 04:16 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2005
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| | | Yes, Indian (Himalayan) Balsam.
But show me a nature reserve manager who says it's a major problem and I'll show you a person with a shiny seat to their trousers and clean fingernails!
henrya |
11-08-2005, 05:36 PM
| | Administrator and Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On the Malvern Hills
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| | | hahaha, yeah that's probably true.
Although, it's not that it's too difficult to clear (compared to brambles etc), it's just that it grows like bamboo. I was out in an urban park yesterday and the banks of the rivers were completely covered in the stuff, about 2 or 3 miles on each side of the water and it was about a metre high and 20 feet wide. |
11-08-2005, 11:04 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: West Lothian in Scotland.
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| | | Thanks Henrya and Stuart. My son will be pleased that he can now put a name to the plant. I had scoured my British Wildflower books to identify it - now I know why I couldn't find it. | | |
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