Registered: November 2006 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 2,197
Mon 29, October 2007 9:46am
Nice picture - a lovely thing at this time of year, even if a bit strange.... Also a very useful tree for ladybirds; the spindle is the (an) overwintering host for the black bean aphid - Aphis fabae - so bean growers don't like it but ladybirds do!
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paul m Really Wild Member
Registered: November 2006 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 2,197
Sun 28, September 2008 11:17am
I was in North Yorks yesterday and struck by how prolifically spindle was fruiting this year - also the leaves going unusually red.
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