The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136154   Message #3111030
Posted By: Steve Shaw
10-Mar-11 - 07:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Got Science?
Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
Begod so we have! My memory's failing me more and more. Orobanche minor sprang up in the new car park of Safeways, Bude, when the store first opened in the mid-90s, apparently parasitic on one of the municipal hedging plants used there. Very unexpected. It grows quite a lot on ivy round here. I admire you for tackling those damned fumitories! I'm brilliant on them as long as they're yellow... ;-) I remember seeing a huge swathe of meadow saxifrage near Malham Tarn in 1970, on a university field course (I was doing a project of the botany of clints and grykes at the time). That and the masses of bird's-eye primrose round there make for wondrous sights!