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10-08-2010, 10:30 AM
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| | | flower ID please
is this cowberry?
found all over the place in dune slacks on Holy Island in Northumbria  
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10-08-2010, 11:19 AM
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| | | Re: flower ID please
Looks like Cowberry to me.  I've not seen it in dune slacks before, but I know it grows in that sort of habitat. I'm more used to seeing it in the hills locally.
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10-08-2010, 11:36 AM
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It looks like a gall on Creeping Willow to me. Cowberry has a very glossy and more rounded leaf.
The location answers my query on your other posting!
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10-08-2010, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by RobSutton  It looks like a gall on Creeping Willow to me. Cowberry has a very glossy and more rounded leaf. | ....and not hairy either, I missed the hairs on my first look.  The underside of Cowberry leaves are very smooth with pores that often appear black on more mature specimens. It looks just like a Cowberry berry though.
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10-08-2010, 11:55 AM
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I might even have a name for the gall former - it could be Pontania collactanea - it's a sort of sawfly. There are others though so don't take this as being 100% certain.
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10-08-2010, 12:35 PM
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thank you both again. Yes it didn't quite match and I did find some cowberry in Yorkshire on the moors on my way back and it was slightly different. I just thought this was a dune slack variation.
There was a lot of creeping willow around as well
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