Aberrant Plants - Photo Board - Page 5

agrumpycow · #41 (**permalink**) 22-06-2009, 09:37 PM

I came across this earlier this evening which I think is a Creeping cinquefoil with an extra petal!

chrishorak · #42 (**permalink**) 27-06-2009, 09:42 PM

I assume this is an aberrant foxglove

Fauna · #43 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 02:39 PM

Ragged Robin.

Jennie · #44 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 10:30 PM

Found this Hogweed on a recent Reading trip.

Merrow · #45 (**permalink**) 01-10-2009, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

Found this Feverfew which has double the amount of outside petals.

is that the same as this 030

apologies for using an outside link (I will get the hang of the image library on here I promise)

mine is a 'fancy' version of feverfew which I grow in the garden, it self seeds everywhere

aeshna5 · #46 (**permalink**) 02-10-2009, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Merrow

is that the same as this 030

apologies for using an outside link (I will get the hang of the image library on here I promise)

mine is a 'fancy' version of feverfew which I grow in the garden, it self seeds everywhere

It's a common double flowered form" flore pleno".

Merrow · #47 (**permalink**) 02-10-2009, 08:14 PM

Ah thanks for that

Mark Tulley · #48 (**permalink**) 03-10-2009, 11:01 PM

A book on the subject of aberrant plants (Teratolgy, apparently) has just been published. It is Abnormalities in Plants by J Presland, J Oliver & M Barber, 2009. Priced at £7.00, 92 pages, from Summerfield Books. Apart from 'double-flowered' there are 'peloric' and 'chimera' amongst the specialised terminology for aberrations. (A short article on it in the BSBI News, September 2009)

Mark

theforestfloor · #49 (**permalink**) 12-09-2010, 06:47 PM

here's a dandelion we found today

AlanS · #50 (**permalink**) 13-09-2010, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

looking through my photos. I remember finding a double daffodil up in Scotland

This is Narcissus 'Van Sion' (more correctly N. 'Telamonius Plenus' under the rules of nomenclature for cultivated plants, but apparently nobody likes that name much). It was known in cultivation in London by 1620 (but probably dates from the 1500s) and is still grown, but it apparently also has a long history as a naturalised plant, at least in western Britain and said to be especially well naturalised in Ireland.

It really ought to have its own entry in our floras - I am actually quite surprised that it is in neither Stace nor in Sell & Murrell. Its origin is unknown, but my own guess is that it is N. hispanicus x obvallaris.

Does something that has retained its characters for nearly 400 years, probably longer, count as aberrant? In my own vice-county (Wigtownshire) it looks quite at home without being intrusive in riverside woodland and I quite like it.

Alan