I expect that we will see a few Green-winged Orchids posted tonight. Lots of rosettes showing but still not flowered, could be a good year? #wildflowerhour Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Sussex Botanical Recording Society Wild Orchids UK & Ireland Britain's Orchids

2/2 Coralroot (Cardamine bulbifera) - not a great phone-snap, but you can see the little red/brown bulbils in the leaf axils that drop off and hopefully lead to new plants 🤞🏻
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Lovely spring walk in one of my local woods on the Wadhurst Clay: Orchis mascula (Early-purple Orchid); Ranunculus auricomus (Goldilocks Buttercup); Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel) amid Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Bluebell)

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Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio) South Downs National Park, West Sussex England 21 April 2024
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Common Milkwort - Polygala vulgaris - just starting to show in this part of Sussex. We mostly get beautiful but similar blues, over at Castle Hill the variety gets much more exciting. I suppose it is the Brighton influence. #wildflowerhour Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Sussex Botanical Recording Society

A cemetery full of Green-winged Orchids (Anacamptis morio) near Hailsham, East Sussex:
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Cuckooflower v Coralroot flower comparison.
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Adder's-tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum), an unusual fern found near Seaford, East Sussex today.
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Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia) found growing in ancient woodland in East Sussex today; despite being poisonous, the plant has been used as a medicinal herb to treat wounds and abscesses.
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Orchis mascula and Neottia ovata on National Trust Wolstonbury Hill. Only a couple of the Common Twayblade had any flowers. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society Plantlife

Mine too!

Almost more reptilian, serpentine or alien than foliaceous. Early-purple Orchid getting ready to excite in a wood near Rye, East Sussex.
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A qu! Off to Winchelsea to see Polypodium cambricum again (March RPR target) & get spore sample as noted Sussex Botanical Recording Society Plant Atlas lists a P. x font-queri there. Does this hybrid have no spores, deformed spores. Not sure what I'd be looking for! Thanx Sylvatica Brad Scott

Dumortiera hirsuta (Fairlight Glen). Polypodium cambricum, Polypodium sp. prob vulagare & Umbilicus rupestris growing epiphytically on Fraxinus excelsior & abundantly on old walls (Winchelsea). More like Devon than East Sussex! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society BBSBryology Sylvatica

Primroses lifting the gloom in Houghton Wood, Rye.
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In a walk through the Babylon Down woods, Willingdon, Eastbourne, sad to see many dead Fraxinus excelsior; many still covered with Lecanora chlarotera/hybocarpa & Metzgeria furcata. Good to see 3 young Daphne laureola in the woods though Woodland Trust🌳 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
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Here come some Sussex #Spring flowers. Pick of the bunch for me...Wild Daffodils 🌾 #WistonWoods
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Dog's mercury, Mercurialis perennis, in flower; first I've seen this year. Woods below Butt's Lane Meadow NR, Willingdon, on Babylon Down. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Navelwort or Belly-button Plant or Wall Pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) growing on The Landgate, Rye. It always looks best in the rain.
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