Flora

[pleb]

[DevonDave]

Your mushroom pic pleb is I think a Parasol.  Years ago we used to pick them and they are really delicious, a much better taste than ordinary mushrooms.  Sadly I haven't seen any for years.

[sunnydale]

Yes, field parasol I think.  They grow reeeeaaaalllly big sometimes!


Here's one I saw a few years ago, in Pembrokeshire....

[Jac]

That's a whopper - you could feed the five thousand with one of those.

[pleb]

I still think they are magic toadstools where pixies live..........................

[sunnydale]

I still think they are magic toadstools where pixies live..........................

Noooo, don't be daft!  That's these ones.....

[barewirewalker]

On a local walk yesterday this took my fancy;



Not a garden flower, though I cannot remember it as a common wild flower. It was in a patch sown in the corner of a field as probable game cover, together with volunteer linseed, a very pretty blue flower it was both unusual and attractive. So a little difficult to know what was deliberately sown and part of the native habitat.

[Forkbeard]

Can anyone tell me the name of these? I'm sure they're not rare, just not had time to sit down and search them:

[sunnydale]

Hi FB,


I'd say Conifer Tuft or Sulphur Tuft but can't be 100% sure.  They look very much like some I photographed a couple of days ago, which were Conifer Tuft....

[Forkbeard]

They certainly look alike... they're growing on the same thing as well.

[sunnydale]

They certainly look alike... they're growing on the same thing as well.

Were you following me?? 

[Forkbeard]

Ha ha, well not literally the same thing. I think. 

[pleb]

[Mel]

Anyone know what this is?  It was growing in abundance along the old railway embankment on the Hornsea Rail Trail:

[DevonDave]

Hi Mel, I'm pretty sure it's Winter Heliotrope.  It comes into flower at this time of year.