Mike Wilcox has been keeping an eye on a Brassica at Apperley Bridge for a while. He was convinced it was Abyssinian Mustard (Brassica carinata), but needed mature fruit to confirm the ID. But its now official. A very interesting find of a casual so rare it only merits one paragraph in the BSBI Handbook, indeed current records in the Distribution Database suggest that as well as being a VC first it is also now the most northerly record for Great Britain. Photo provided by Mike below.
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.
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