London Rocket

The London Flora Project run by the Botany section of the London Natural History Society

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@ApidaeHoney @fungi_flowers Not a very good comms strategy. Post something ‘edgy’, rebuff polite expert critique and block people. In the process you harm your business and damage the reputation of beekeeping.

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@SNCVvolunteers @frithinwood @COLHousing @concretebotany @WildLondon @MunicipalDreams @Love_plants @SydenhamSociety Agreed, that’s odorata.

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@treeruss @Mike_Waller_ @frithinwood @WildLondon @greatnorthwood @wildflower_hour @EnviroLewisham @Britainsorchids @Love_SE4 @AbneyParkN16 Hi Russell, sorry I can’t make your event tonight. Btw, do you have any botany records for Abney and elsewhere that you’re willing to share with @LNHS_Botany

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@BlotchedEmerald @BSBIbotany Once upon a time, very; not anymore!

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@frithinwood @WildLondon @wildflower_hour @iGiGL @concretebotany Although still rare in London, this plant is slowly increasing. What would benefit it? A reduction of mowing, small populations lurk in heavily mown grass across parts of south London. #nomowmay

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@frithinwood @WildLondon @wildflower_hour @concretebotany @morethanweeds Hi Mathew, where was that taken, the flowers look rather large, it may be ssp. intermedia a rare nonnative..

[mathew frith @frithinwood]

spikelets of grazing brome, or rescuegrass, an Argentinian seemingly at home in south London and now browning like kippers #30DaysWild @WildLondon @LNHS_Botany @LISI_invasives @CABI_Invasives @#wildlifefrommywindow

[mathew frith @frithinwood]

fireworks of red valerian tipsily spilling out of wallcracks; drunkards is another name for this kiss-me-quick salty Mediterranean lime-lover that's made home here since the 1760s #30DaysWild @WildLondon @wildflower_hour @LNHS_Botany @concretebotany #wildlifefrommywindow

[mathew frith @frithinwood]

largely masked by the pungent flopsy clouds of elder, wild privet still sweet lights some local hedgerows #30DaysWild @wildflower_hour @WildLondon @DulwichSociety @LNHS_Botany

[mathew frith @frithinwood]

ivy broomrape, one cracking plant... @LNHS_Botany @WildLondon @wildflower_hour @concretebotany #30DaysWild

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@frithinwood @WildLondon @wildflower_hour @concretebotany Ace plant!

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@BrianLaney2 @morethanweeds @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour It’s still in Eydon.

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[mathew frith @frithinwood]

wheat'eared husk of common spotted-orchid in a hidden downy rough near Forestdale; looking more wholesome than voluptuously exotic @LNHS_Botany @LDNRecordersDay @WildLondon @wildflower_hour @Forestdaleweb

[mathew frith @frithinwood]

one of hundreds of toffee'd husks of ivy broomrape skirting a hedge in Dulwich, charred by age as the ivy fruits purple @WildLondon @LNHS_Botany @iGiGL @wildflower_hour @DulwichSociety

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

@lastronge @britgalls Yup, that’s Claviceps. In this case they not called galls, they are sclerotia as they are fungal tissue, not plant tissue.

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

It sad so see this sort of clear-cut Pinus radiata forestry still going on. The exposed soil on the very steep hill is clearly eroding badly and likely to be adversely affecting nearly water courses.

[London Rocket @LNHS_Botany]

Translucent oil glands on the leaf surface of Myoporum laetum.

[Avie Clarke @avie_clarke]

This swan in Tottenham has had to rescued and rushed to treatment for botulism.

All because the River Lea is so polluted.

It's simply cruel to make wildlife suffer like this because we humans can't be bothered to look after our environment.