Jonathan Shanklin has kindly sent another batch of records gathered on a Cambridge Bryology Group outing to Huntingdonshire. This time the group spent time in Stilton and Washingley. Given the focus of the trip was bryophytes and the limitations of the time of year, not a bad list was assembled and this included the second county record of Early Crocus (Crocus tommasinianus) naturalised from plantings along the footpath past the fish ponds at Washingley.
This species is past its best now but here is a photo taken a couple of weeks ago in Oulton churchyard (VC63).
I am the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) Vice-County Recorder for Huntingdonshire (VC31) and Mid-West Yorkshire (VC64). I've set-up this botany blog to more readily share news on recent wildflower discoveries made by myself and others, to encourage wider recording, and as a way to challenge myself to take more photographs of the plants I find. See the BSBI website for more information on the work of the society and the diverse range of botany projects currently in progress.
Monday 7 March 2016
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