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Wot's that plant?
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:17:17 -0700 (PDT), bobharvey
wrote in : On 26 July, 16:51, "Dr Ivan D. Reid" wrote: * * * * While we're playing this game, does anyone recognise this plant that sprang up next to my cheery tree last year. *It's very thorny... It's already as tall as me[165cm] and must have flowered when I wasn't looking as it's now developing several berries which are turning red; I opened one up today and it was filled with lots of mm-ish sized seeds. http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/~ireid/waitawhile/-- ... Looks like it could be Rosa Rugosa, a popular hedging plant with a lot of varieties. massive crops of hips are popular with various types of finches leading t widespread seed distribution. I get very few birds besides sparrows and starlings in my garden (the wood pigeons and crested doves don't call much since I stopped feeding them with my Pringles bird-feeder (q.v.) and I haven't had a resident robin since the unfortunate accident with the rat-trap). I saw a couple of great tits once... After the Great Elder-bush Infestation a couple of years ago, I was ready to blame the sparrows for passing elder seeds in my raspberry patch this year, there being lots of tall straight shoots amongs them (despite never having seen a sparrow amongst the raspberries) but today when I pruned all this year's fruiting canes I realised that they were indeed raspberry canes, they'd just not grown that tall and straight before (a quick comparison with a real elder reminded me that the leaves are very dissimilar). Snag is, the thorns and the stems look nothing like the couple of hundred of them I have in my garding. Mine are almost hairy with much smaller bristly thorns. But there are varieties, as I say. Urglers are good at this sort of thing. They are also good at getting Adny Woodwrad banned from Usenet, IIRC, but we shall see. Thanks. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |
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