Wild flowers

[bagpuss]

Fungi starting to come out, Rowberrow, Mendip

Fairy bonnet

Cep

False chanterelle

Birch bolete

Common puffball

Jelly antler

 

[Lankyman]

Down by the canal on a warm, sunny day. Heavy load of crab apples

Quite a few shaken off by recent strong winds (it is autumn, meteorologically)

The blackberries are past their best but quite acceptable to this red admiral butterfly

Not many flowers about now but there was some water mint in the canal

I also passed quite a lot of orange balsam in this stretch so spent some time uprooting as much as I could reach. I suspect it's here to stay in the canal.

 

[me]

These flowers were hugging the ground in the sand dunes at South End Haws.

I thought they are normally not that small and yes, in a sheltered spot they grew taller.

From these bad photos does anyone know what they are?

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Ermm..? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_vulgare perhaps?

 

[bagpuss]

Still a few wild flowers on the higher slopes of Mendip today. Knapweed, Yarrow and Toadflax

air

Quite a bit of fungi also emerging.

Puffball (some picked for tomorrows lunch as there were loads)

Amethyst deceiver

Deceiver

Clouded agagric

Don't know this one..

 

[me]

Ermm..? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_vulgare perhaps?

It was so wind battered there was none looking that good, but could be .... thank you

 

[kay]

It was so wind battered there was none looking that good, but could be .... thank you

Yes, it is

 

[Lankyman]

Walking along the promenade at Morecambe the sea defences are embankments of large limestone blocks. Looking at what's started sprouting there made me think that they're a bit like an artificial limestone pavement. Herb Robert

I think this fern is limestone polypody

 

[bagpuss]

First Fly Agaric sighting of the year, Mendip.

 

[Mr Dinwiddy]

A couple of autumnal flowers- Devil's-bit scabious and western gorse. Western gorse is far rarer than the common European gorse and only grows on the western side of the country. It flowers in the autumn and isnt really a flower of the limestones other than on sea cliffs.

 

[Lankyman]

A couple of autumnal flowers- Devil's-bit scabious and western gorse. Western gorse is far rarer than the common European gorse and only grows on the western side of the country. It flowers in the autumn and isnt really a flower of the limestones other than on sea cliffs. View attachment 27885

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Where are these - from the glimpses of background I'm thinking Lakes or North Wales perhaps?

 

[bagpuss]

No flowers, only fungi, orange pore fungus, an invasive non native. North Devon.

 

[me]

I really struggled to find some colours on Greenham Common today.

 

[Lankyman]

On a Sunday walk on a misty hill - mushrooms and manure (or toadstools and turd?)

Further down in the pastures we saw a few of these pale blue flowers which seemed to have survived cutting Jo

 

[bagpuss]

On a Sunday walk on a misty hill - mushrooms and manure (or toadstools and turd?)
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Further down in the pastures we saw a few of these pale blue flowers which seemed to have survived cutting Jo
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Very similar for us yesterday, think this one is possibly a snowy ink cap.

Sulpher tufts

Red campion?

@Lankyman I think your pale blue flower is Chicory?

 

[Lankyman]

I think your pale blue flower is Chicory?

Thanks. My book says it has 'medicinal value' as a diuretic and laxative. A fun addition to a salad?

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Thanks. My book says it has 'medicinal value' as a diuretic and laxative. A fun addition to a salad?

I wonder if it had the same effect when used as ersatz coffee? I vaguely recall seeing it in the shop attached to my uncle's bakery in King's Lynn when I was quite young (late 1950's) sold under a brand called Camp.

It seems an updated version is still sold.

Jim

 

[alanw]

I vaguely recall seeing it in the shop attached to my uncle's bakery in King's Lynn when I was quite young (late 1950's) sold under a brand called Camp.

At my boarding school around 1970 it was served in the evenings. I have no idea why.

It seems an updated version is still sold.

With a more politically correct label these days.

 

[spelfish]

Mildly disgusting and totally caffeine free - why would you bother?

 

[shotlighter]

I wonder if it had the same effect when used as ersatz coffee? I vaguely recall seeing it in the shop attached to my uncle's bakery in King's Lynn when I was quite young (late 1950's) sold under a brand called Camp.

It seems an updated version is still sold.

Jim

My grandma used to drink this with a pinch of salt. She said it gave it a rounder taste.