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_MICRO BOTANICS

_ A SELECTION OF VEGETATION PHOTOGRAPHED ON 04/06/17 (SPRING/SUMMER) AT EAVES WOOD, SILVERDALE

_ Aegopodium podagraria L. (Ground elder)

_ Emerging young ground elder showing green foliage

_ Taxus bacata (Yew)

_ Rich green summer growth

_ Prunus avium (Wild cherry)

_ Full petal spread, stamens surrounding stigma showing which hold the pollen

_ Geum urbanum (Wood avens)

_  Yellow flowers appear on slender stems from May to August and are a good source of nectar

_ Asplenium scolopendrium (Hearts tongue fern)

_ An evergreen fern forming a rosette of arching, rich green, strap-shaped fronds 

_ Allium ursinum (Ramsons, Wild garlic)

_ The plant has finished flowering and is now displaying bulbills

_ Galium odoratum (Sweet woodruf)

_ A wide mat of erect stems, bearing whorls of bright green, lance-shaped leaves, hay-scented when dry, with terminal clusters of small white, starry flowers 

_ Fagus sylvatica (Beech)

_ Emerging young beech showing green summer foliage

_ Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore)

_ Saplings rising from the woodland floor

_ Prunus avium (Wild cherry)

_ Full petal spread, stamens surrounding stigma showing which hold the pollen

_ Geranium robertianum (Herb robert)

_  Forming a rosette of deeply dissected, aromatic leaves, with large, open sprays of pale pink flowers 

_ Briza media (Quaking grass)

_ small globules hang from thin stems

_ Inonotus dryadeus (Oak bracket)

_ Large annual brackets layered on fallen Oak

_ Physalis alkekengi var. franchetti (Chinese Lantern)

_  Ovate green leaves showing, with small white flowers coming in summer and lantern like leaves encapsulating fruits in winter

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