Is that celery weed the same thing as fools watercress?
08.03.2026 18:10
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Is that celery weed the same thing as fools watercress?
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
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A screen shot from Facebook of Ryan Hamilton holding a bucket and wearing a big, soliciting donations for the Heart Foundation outside Hillcrest New World.
The origins of the Move On orders are from Ham East National MP, Ryan Hamilton - former Hamilton City Councillor whose council colleagues are setting up bylaws of a $20,000 fine for basically being visibly homeless.
It begs the question, who's allowed to ask for money on the street and who isn't?
Drain 1. 2015. Before planting.
2018. Drain was mechanically cleared and planted. Also celery weed grows slowly in winter.
2021. Summer and no celery weed until further downstream where planting stops.
2026. Despite appearances, still glowing free below. A good reason not to plant harakeke right on the edges. They get massive and can restrict flow in storm events or blockages if they fall in.
I wasn't involved in this project but I've been a keen observer. Celery weed is a huge cost to Council's and landowners around the country for channel maintenance. Appropriate riparian planting shades out celery weed and can significantly reduce maintenance costs.
Ah I see - that's good. Hopefully the system can be improved...
Do you know if curators have the ability to obscure other people's observations? Maybe that could be done?
What's going on with these interviews where managers air out their grievances with their organisation (Glasner, Amorim)???
Fair enough, there's still a few of those people there
What went wrong on iNaturalist? I find the community pretty good (though I mostly put plants on)
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Symbolic image showing a flowering Erica shrub next to a wildfire image
Postdoc position with me at Stockholm University โ phylogenomics and evolution of fire adaptations in Malagasy Erica : www.su.se/english/divi...
Martinelli + Jesus on second half we get two more goals
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Amongst planted Cotoneasters in the car park at #Cambridge North station some Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, sill in flower. #WildflowerHour
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That's a tricky one... I went looking for Erica arborea last month, which flowers Jul to Dec in your Flora IV, and was hoping there'd be the odd flower still around but missed them. I wonder if some of those flowering times would have shifted earlier since that was published?
wow that is bizarre!
is there a similar study for plants? I'd assume less grasses, bryophytes, etc from citizen scientists?
I want Aotearoa to at a minimum suspend 5-eyes and all other military connections to the US. Australia Canada and the Uk should do so too.
We've been working with @metoffice.gov.uk to analyse 10 years of #NewYearPlantHunt data.
The analysis provides the clearest evidence yet of how rising temperatures are impacting the British & Irish flora, with knock-on effects for all our wildlife.
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A collage of 13 Nightshade family fruit photos from around Cambridge and in Suffolk: Solanum pseudocapsicum, Datura stramonium, Nicandra physaloides, Lycium barbarum, Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara, Solanum nigrum, Solanum nitidibaccatum, Hyoscymus niger, Solanum triflorum, Solanum chenopodioides, Solanum sisymbriifolium, โฆ& Solanum villosum.
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A knitted Powelliphanta or giant New Zealand snail - my Christmas present!
Knitted Powelliphanta - what everyone should get for Christmas esp as proceeds go to snail conservation #snailfulandtriumphanta
Thank you! I was wondering about hybrids. ๐ค There are more observations of E. arborea near Wellington and I wonder if they will be more to 'type'.
@piriemike.bsky.social do you have any thoughts on this? (Our E. arborea specimen = 1 & 2; a E. lusitanica specimen 3 & 4).
Seeds of our supposed E. arborea (1) do not match the description in the paper below and instead look like E. lusitanica seeds (2) however are larger. Hairs of our specimen do not appear to be branched (3) however are more crooked than E. lusitanica (4).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
royal fern, tradescantia yellow spot fungus, onion twitch and a flowering Phyllostachys... and more...
Erica arborea with weedologists Trevor James (front) and Paul Champion (back). Supposed to be up to 5 m in height, compared to only 2 m for Erica lusitanica
Erica caffra/Erica afra with distinct leaves that when looked closely do not cover undersides like the other heather speciez
A tall specimen of rice paper plant Tetrapanax papyrifer
Flowers of Solanum aviculare, poroporo #mฤra
Today I reached 5000 @inaturalist.bsky.social observations looking for heathers (Erica arborea and Erica afra) with weedologists Trevor James and Paul Champion! Saw a couple other nice finds - rice paper plant and the rarer poroporo.
