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Thale Cress

18/4/2020

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Thale Cress Arabidopsis thaliana is now the commonest pavement plant in Waterloo. Each year it dominates the walls and cracks for just a couple of weeks, the rest of the year it is pretty inconspicuous, though I have seen it in flower for 10 months of the year, March to December. Native to Eurasia and North Africa it has been introduced and naturalised in the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. It was the first plant to have it’s genome sequenced in 2000, as it is has relatively few base pairs, just around  135 million. The life cycle can be completed in just 6 weeks.
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Spring 2020 around Waterloo

10/4/2020

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In March / April been restricted to the flora of the Waterloo area (but that is what I am studying anyway). Principally the streets and the Rimrose Valley.
There is an interesting article on the flowering times of urban Cambridge by Chris PrestonThe phenology of an urban street flora: a transect study in British and Irish Botany at https://britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/44

Mouse-ear leaves, it’s how it gets the name.
Cherry in flower.
Garlic Mustard
Slender Speedwell Veronica filiformis.
Field Horsetail in spore
Wood Forget-me-not, as pavement plants originating from gardens.
Honesty
Silver Birch
Larch coming into leaf.
Danish Scurvy Grass
Hornbeam catkins
cherry blossom
Gorse
Common Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha ssp.ruderalis
Wild Cherry
Ivy-leaved Speedwell
Common Whitlow Grass
Ivy-leaved Toadflax on wall
Dogwood flower bud
Ash bud
Buddleia growing on chimney
Poplar catkins
Green Alkanet
Hairy Bittercress
Bonfire Moss Funaria hygrometrica
Coltsfoot
Grey-cushioned Grimmia Moss Grimmia pulvinata
Spring Beauty as wall top plant
Marble Gall Andricus kollari gall on oak
Common Whitlow Grass as wall top plant
Rue- leaved Saxifrage as wall top plant
Red - dead nettle
Rust fungus Puccinia phragmitis on dock leaf
Herb Robert
Gall on willow, but it’s causer is still uncertain - virus or phytoplasma probably. Very common on most willows, most noticeable in winter.
Daisy
Coltsfoot
Sunrise over Waterloo
Garden Pansy in pavement cracks
Sticky Mouse-ear flower buds
Polypody Fern
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