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Janet Baraclough wrote:
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Is it a lichen?

No (lots of those here, but not growing on earth)

Try a liverwort. They spread like anything in damp, sunless conditions
and vanish equally fast when exposed to sunlight.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Dave Poole wrote:

Without wishing to offend those living in the Netherlands, we used to
call this 'Dutchman's Curse' 30 or so years ago. It arrived in vast
quantities when nurseries and garden centres started importing shrubs
and trees from Holland.

In the Midlands especially, many of us bought in stuff from a large
nursery called Nieuwesteeg in Boskoop. Most of the stock was good
quality and well priced, but with it came bittercress, which then
seeded into nursery and garden centre standing areas and then back
into other pots. It didn't take long before it became the most
prevalent weed in container shrubs and it remains so to this very day.

Aha! I just knew careless nurseries must be implicated. But it's still
striking that a common enough native species should have had such a
population explosion: is there a reason for that? Was the Dutch form
different in some subtle but important way? Or is there an environmental
change behind it?

Could be interbreeding with another strain has produced a much more
fertile one?

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Photo janet? so at least we can be wary!

I'll send you one whn the snow melts


Sorry to be a harbinger of wossname, but you've got more on the way.

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I've emailed a weed pic to Janet T. If anyone else wants to see it
and have a crack at identification, please email me with your address.


OK, you can send me pics - and I think you know my emu.

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