Lathraea squamaria (Toothwort) in bloom, parasitising Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel) in a park by the River Lagan in Belfast - a frequent host for this species in the N of Ireland Jake na Dalaċ Gıle Aoife Embleton Patrick Gleeson

Somebody familiar has a cameo in the Newbridge Demesne account in this new ‘The Grasslands Trail’ document, which can be viewed for free here: greatirishgrasslands.ie/wp-content/upl… Phoebe O'Brien Maria Long 😁

Nice to deliver some habitat training recently at Abbeyleix raised bog and Granstown Lake in Co. Laois - two ecologically contrasting sites only 10 minutes apart, first Andromeda polifolia (Bog Rosemary) on the high bog, last two show 91E0 alluvial woodland & marl soil underneath

Great day out with Alexis FitzGerald learning habitat classification. Encyclopaedic knowledge!

Meet Lepidothamnus laxifolius (Podocarpaceae), the tiniest conifer in the World, endemic from New Zealand. It mostly grows as a prostrate shrub that does not go above 10 cm tall. I got to hug a large clump, which was using a larger restio as support.

🌿 Inland Fisheries Ireland publishes first ever #Irish book on #aquatic plants 🫧

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The Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene saw massive human-linked #extinctions among #megafauna - but what happened to survivors? Based on genomics data for 139 extant megafauna, we show they experienced severe parallel declines as well Nature Communications 🦬🐘🐫🦒🦁 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Creating a bit of a disturbance in Allihies! This @npwsBioData micro-conservation project is to benefit one of the world's rarest species. Cornish Path Moss (Ditrichum cornubicum) is found only at Allihies copper mines & two mines in Cornwall: newbig5.com/critically-end…
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Depressing algal 'gloop' drowning grassland bryophytes at a SSSI in Somerset. Causes need urgent research but the alga(e) involved may be favoured by the surface eutrophication caused by high levels of deposition of atmospheric N.

Platanthera sikkimensis (Hook.f.) Kraenzl.
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Land Quillwort Isoetes histrix at Caerthillian, Lizard today. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland British Pteridological Society

I think, Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Salsola kali (4th pic), on wet brackish limestone rocks by the coast of Brindisi, S Italy - the former species is widely distributed in the Med, Macaronesia, N Sahara, and SW Asia; it is a taller (woody) shrub than our Sarcocornia perennis