Wild About The World

Syon Park

paul m — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:46:29 -0400

by: paul m

Description: An Echium, perhaps? Middlesex; mid-May 2013.

Syon Park

paul m — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:46:28 -0400

by: paul m

Description: One of the Boraginaceae? Middlesex; mid-May 2013.

Syon Park

paul m — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:46:26 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Weird-looking flower - from a southern continent? Middlesex; mid-May 2013.

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Syon Park

paul m — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:46:26 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Middlesex; mid-May 2013.

Unidentified Japanese moth

Malkie — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:21:26 -0400

by: Malkie

Description: moth, Tokyo For use in forum post http://www.wildabouttheworld.com/forum/insects-and-invertebrates/5675-japanese-moth-please.html

Sheffield Botanical Gardens

paul m — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:11:26 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Tree in arid house. Goes with [url=http://www.wildabouttheworld.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/21045][img]http://www.wildabouttheworld.com/gallery/data//526/thumbs/03335trunk2.jpg[/img][/url]] Any suggestions? Late February 2013.

Sheffield Botanical Gardens

paul m — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:11:25 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Tree in arid house. Late February 2013.

Fallen tree with regrowth

paul m — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:04:43 -0500

by: paul m

Description: This was a full-length timber tree with bark like a beech but some ringing like a cherry - surrounding leaf litter was chestnut and neighbouring deciduous trees oak .... shall need to return! A very wet wood, despite a sunny day and no recent downpours. Bucknell Wood, Northamptonshire, UK; mid-February, 2013,

Unidentified

Suzanne B — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:31:41 -0500

by: Suzanne B

Description: I found this on a bag while cleaning out our shed. It's about an inch long. Any ideas? Thanks See forum post - http://www.wildabouttheworld.com/forum/insects-and-invertebrates/5195-unidentified-pupae.html

Unidentified -

Suzanne B — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:31:40 -0500

Harlow Carr

paul m — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:07:02 -0500

by: paul m

Description: The RHS gardens were almost deserted of people - very cold. Most of the beds have been cleared up and there are very few flowering plants outside. This, growing in gravel in the Alpine house is labelled just 'samphire' but looks very much like Sedum to me. Mid-January, 2013.

Another Helleborus

paul m — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:21:46 -0500

by: paul m

Description: Sheffield Botanical Garden; January 2013.

Grass ?

paul m — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:05:31 -0500

by: paul m

Description: Amongst the lower leaves are odd little clumps - old flowering stems or are these seedheads? Sheffield Botanical garden; January, 2013.

Unidentified white-flowered climber

paul m — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:59:33 -0500

by: paul m

Description: Growing from the middle of wall of glasshouse. Looks a bit like a Clematis but the flower not quite right? Sheffield Botanic Gardens; December, 2012.

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Shrubby plants

paul m — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:56:11 -0500

by: paul m

Description: Roussillon, France; August 2012.

Shrubby plants

paul m — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:56:11 -0500

by: paul m

Description: This looks like a Clematis but not quite .... Roussillon, France; August 2012.

Tall flowering plant

paul m — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:13:47 -0500

by: paul m

Description: In temperate glasshouse, Sheffield Botanical Garden. Early November, 2012.

Street shrub

paul m — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:03:42 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Quite a common planting - looks something like a rhododendron from its flowers but not from these fruit Toulouse; August, 2012.

Lychnis flos-cuculi - ragged robin ?

paul m — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:42:32 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Is this L' flos-cuculi - more ragged than usual because of the weather! Harlow Carr, Harrogate, North Yorkshire; early October, 2012.

C�ret

paul m — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:42:00 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Unidentified shrub. One of my favourite towns. Pyr�n�es-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; late August 2012.

ID please

Suzanne B — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:19:25 -0400

by: Suzanne B

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Hoverfly

paul m — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 05:12:14 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Looks the wrong shape for Dasysyrphus, so must be a Scaeva? Pyr�n�es-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon; August 2012.

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Carlina sp - Carline thistle?

paul m — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:58:33 -0400

by: paul m

Description: More seedheads than flowers! Pyr�n�es-Orientales, France; late August 2012.

Ariege

paul m — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:59:26 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Not a native tree. This has huge leaves - look a bit like Datura! Foix, Midi Pyrenees; August 2012

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Ariege

paul m — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:59:26 -0400

by: paul m

Description: The tree bark seems to be about to crack open. Foix, Midi Pyrenees; August 2012

Campanula barbata - bearded bellflower

paul m — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:59:25 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Two type of Campanula seem to prdominate in this area: this one distinctly 'hairy'. Thanks steve! Foix, Ariege, Midi Pyrenees; August 2012

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Plants of Monts�gur

paul m — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:54:19 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Plant species change on the ascent but with most on the peak itself: very attractive to butterflies. Mid-August, 2012.

Plants of Monts�gur

paul m — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:54:19 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Lycaenid on a scanious: couldn't be persuaded to open its wings while I was watching! Many butterflies on the summit. Plant species change on the ascent but with most on the peak itself: very attractive to butterflies. Mid-August, 2012.

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Plants of Monts�gur

paul m — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:54:19 -0400

by: paul m

Description: Plant species change on the ascent but with most on the peak itself: very attractive to butterflies. Mid-August, 2012.

Plants of Monts�gur