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Plant specimens in the bound herbarium collected by William Paine titled "Plants collected in ye County's of Hants, Sussex, Surrey, Bucks, Berks, Middlesex & Oxon Anno 1737". The specimen of Navelwort (modern Umbilicus rupestris) beside it also appears to be from the same location)

"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre

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It didn’t hang around for closer inspection. As these are ‘male’ plants not sure how rewarding they are for visiting bees. 🤔

Butterbur and (Tree?) Bumblebee by the #Cam in Paradise NR #Cambridge today. Despite the abundance of flowers it didn't stay long. #WildWebsWednesday

You beat me to it! Alternatively I’ve seen some nice images of arbuscular mycorrhiza. 😉

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Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May.

With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

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Mandrake right on time for its #JacobinDay in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

The v rare Barton Road Comfrey Symphytum × perringianum (S. asperum × S. officinale × S. orientale) just starting flowering in Cambridge today. Gone at the wild site but a few plants remain in cultivation #wildflowerhour

Deodar with daffodils and violets at Madingley Hall #Cambridge.
#ThickTrunkTuesday.

From The Backs #Cambridge the first cauline leaves and flower buds of Goldilocks Buttercup Ranunculus auricomus likely what Alan Leslie described as R. cantabrigiensis. #Botany

‘Freshwater forensics: Using DNA to solve the mysteries of biodiversity change’.
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#eDNA #aquatic #biodiversity #fish #invertebrates

13.1 miles ran, 3 miles walked, and 100% ready for a nap. #cambridgehalfmarathon2026 #cambridgelivingstreets

First flowers opening on the Yoshino Cherry Tree in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social today. Soon there’ll be a queue of people taking selfies!

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Very much id by 'where they always are'. Alan Leslie former VCR29 & author of Flora of Cambs showed me where to look. The drainage swale is 40x10m and male plants occupy large part of centre and flower very early. Females hiding up one end fight their was through ivy but eventually much taller.

Lathraea squamaria in a sea of Allium ursinum.

#wildflowers #botany

The finely pinnatifid leaves and spotted stems of Conium maculatum, Hemlock.

Spotted in a #Cambridge verge! 😉

A Purple toothwort flower in grass.

Purple toothwort in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Grape-hyacinth, Muscari neglectum, by a fence around an electricity sub-station in #Cambridge. May have been introduced with grape vines in an adjacent allotment.
#WildFlowerHour

Hornbeam catkins in a hedge by a #Cambridge P&R #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

What did the Romans do for us? They forgot to take Alexanders with them when they left in 410AD. Early flowers from where it is invading a #Cambridge hedge. #WildFlowerHour

Interesting. There’s a patch near home in Cambridge with no signs yet but the extent of the plant in Bury is so wide there’s always a chance of a few early flowers.

Common Alder male catkins and female cones below a dull red leaf bud. Lackford Lakes #Suffolk. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Spring Beauty under a planted Beech hedge in #Cambridge
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

First few flowers of Few-flowered Garlic, Allium paradoxum, amongst Cleavers in The Great Churchyard #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Hybrid Poplar with Mistletoe above and Purple Toothwort below by Hobson's Conduit upstream from the latter's main population on Sheep's Green #Cambridge
#WildflowerHour

Male Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, now joined by female in flower in a swale in the Accordia housing development #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Not what you want to see on a protected verge: Glory-of-the-Snow, Scilla forbesii, and Garden Grape-hyacinth, Muscari armeniacum. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring #Cambridge
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Photos of what Prof Henslow and Babington would have called it Hyacinthus/Muscari racemosus between Cherry Hinton and the Gog-magog Hills.

Under Blackthorn & Alexanders (hence illumination with phone torch) here's Grape-hyacinth, Muscari neglectum, in the spot described by Prof Henslow in 1828 as 'under a hedge on the side of the hill between Hinton & the Gogs' (see ALT).
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring #Cambridge 🍒🏘️

Inside a well lit conservatory with white walls and red tiled floor. Trailing plants grow up and down the back wall behind two small round tables holding large pot plants. Another, lower, rectangular table stands along the side wall with smaller pot plants on top. Between the three small tables stand two large, sculptures on white plinths.

Inside the conservatory at the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors #photography #dailyphoto #out&about #sculpture #Cornwall

Last years capsule and seed coats, this years seedlings. Agrostemma githago.

#wildflowers #botany