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Lepidozia cupressina was a nice find right by the path on a wee walk at Falls of Foyers, only the second record from around Loch Ness, the first being in 1961 by the notorious D. Ratcliffe.
Seems this pic I took of myself & Cuilean stood by a patch of mossy stonecrop (Crassula tillaea) at Opinan back in mid September is only the second Wester Ross record of this species. As per usual, growing in a car park.
Found a new site for Canadian fleabane (Erigeron canadensis) whilst going to get my car washed in Inverness a couple days ago, second Invernesian record of this adventive.
Had to wait a bit to post this until both were confirmed, but my other 2 finds from this particular job that I was gey chuffed with were Sphagnum majus & S. affine, neither of which I鈥檇 seen before so it was great to pick them out! #Corrour
ALT Sphagnum majus
ALT Sphagnum majus
ALT Sphagnum affine
ALT Sphagnum affine
Attended a great wee workshop last week organised by @PlantlifeScot at @NatureScot Muir of Dinnet NNR looking at the nationally rare aspen bristle-moss (Nyholmiella gymnostoma), also seeing the endangered Nyholmiella obtusifolia & nationally scarce Lewinskya speciosa.
ALT Nyholmiella gymnostoma
ALT Nyholmiella obtusifolia
ALT Lewinskya speciosa
ALT Volunteers, bryologists & reserve managers amongst abundant aspens
Yeah the beech in there is pretty bad really. If that orange blur was green Rhododendron then it鈥檇 be wiped out of there. Maybe should鈥檝e lumped it with the Sitka, hemlock & Doug-fir!
Pretty galling seeing Rhododendron ponticum invading this strip of pedunculate oak woodland at the north end of Loch Ness. Also been historically underplanted with beech, pine & larch (not too bad) & more recently invaded by Sitka spruce, Doug-fir & western hemlock (pretty bad).
So many Sika deer (Cervus nippon) around locally. Heaps of them. Can really see the trampling impact they're having on this local lochan (which I suspect is a kettle hole). A few nice Sphagna to be found still but the coralroot orchid still evades me... Must be there...
Visited the Skipinnish Oak the other day as I happened to be passing the day after it won UK Tree of the Year. It's been through a lot & is still threatened but I hear positive things are in the pipeline...
Amazing field trip for #PineCon24 discussing native pinewoods missed from the inventory, how to identify them, what state they鈥檙e in & what to do about them. A great example site here.