Stephen Lemon

Botany, particularly sedges, bryology, habitats, landscape history and geology.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

Aberrant form of Common Spotted Orchid from Kent with strange flowers that don't appear to have spurs. Peloria or pseudopeloria?

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

An impressive olive tree near Tarvin in Cheshire, with an equally impressive colony of the moss Nogopterium gracile. The tree has been in place for at least 3 years but most likely Nogopterium was already on it when imported from northern Italy. @BBSbryology

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

@alisonhaynes1 No problem. I need to revisit and see how it's doing.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

An excellent wood for bryophytes. We saw lots of Hyocomium armoricum and Scapania undulata along the ghylls.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

An old graveyard at Southborough Common with an ancient woodland flora, including wild daffodil and a few graves that have lawns of Rhytidiadelphus loreus @BBSbryology

[Owen Leyshon @LeyshonOwen]

I had a cycle out to Ivychurch and Brenzett on the Romney Marsh to appreciate the native Black Poplars

Including the native sapling in a ditch at Ivychurch near to the female tree

Fantastic work by @KentFieldClub in funding DNA clonal analysis and @LemonStephen

@BSBIbotany

[Peter Q D Flood @floodenheim]

Aw forget previous post - when did I ever let shit photography get in the way of posting bryo pics?

Odontoschisma denudatum
Barbilophozia attentuata + perianths
Harpanthus scutatus +exciting local extras
Scapania umbrosa

Thanks to @Trichocolea for organising #liverworts

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

The hybrid sedge Carex otrubae x divulsa, growing among colonies of both parent species, near Sevenoaks Weald. Occupying the damp base to a steep bank with its C. otrubae parent. The C. divulsa parent growing on the dryer ground above.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

'Bullet holes' created by emerging Hornet Clearwing moths, along the base hybrid poplar trees in Dartford. Very grateful to Ray Winterman for showing me these.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

Great to see Tunbridge Filmy-fern on rocks where I haven't seen it before, last weekend at Eridge Rocks

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

Hay-scented Buckler-fern at the bottom of the photo, a much brighter green than the Broad Buckler-fern above it. Seen with the @BBSbryology South-east Group along the edge of the sandstone cliff face at Eridge Rocks last weekend.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

Tennis ball size nest made of Carex vesicaria, just found in a pond at Chiddingstone Reserve. Assume this is Harvest Mouse.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

@Trichocolea Thanks Brad. I will try and work out where the marshes might have been.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

@Trichocolea Brad can you interpret the rest of the bottom line other than Peckham?

[Nevil Hutchinson @mrchumpley]

Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris) at Rye Harbour. @Trichocolea @LemonStephen @BSBIbotany #wildflowerhour

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

@kent_field held a very productive bioblitz in early June at @GoodnestonePark with 400 species recorded over a 24 hour period. My contribution included the moss Leucodon sciuroides from the house wall.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

@NommeDeTwit Helped a bit with that, but it benefits from on a lot of recorders and sources.

[Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen]

A veteran coppiced ash in a shaw along a stream at Bore Place. The raised bowls produced by coppicing trees like this are a rich habitat. This one has the moss Anomodon viticulosus which is common in Kent but rarely found in the clay woods on the Low Weald.

[Owen Leyshon @LeyshonOwen]

Took an opportunity this morning to go and see if the Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus) plant was still present outside an old farm building near Maidstone, Kent

Found by @LemonStephen last year

A rare plant in South East England now - after a major decline

@BSBIbotany

[Owen Leyshon @LeyshonOwen]

A guided walk for a group on Dungeness NNR, Kent today

Also it is 25 years since Dungeness was designated a National Nature Reserve
Against my better judgement - here is a young me in the middle with Bill Oddie 😬

#NNRWeek2023
#NationalNatureReserves
#NNRweek

@NaturalEngland