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Zarza del Salmon (Rubus spectabilis)Autor
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Dec 21 observation. Flowering on the winter solstice!
An Anna’s Hummingbird was checking the flowers.
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Bretónica (Prunella vulgaris)Autor
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Flowering on Jan 1
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Rubus vestitusAutor
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Placeholder- I need to download my closeup photos. I’ve seen this plant in spring, when it has pink flowers and abundant stipitate glands. I wanted to see whether these diagnostic glands were still identifiable on the dead floricanes in winter. Some better preserved strands had stipitate glands visible, but for the most part they were worn off or otherwise not upright and reliably visible. ID here is still possible by leaf shape but absence if stipitate glands seems to not be a reliable ID feature on dead winter branches here since they can be really hard to find on dead Rubus vestitus (at least without a microscope).
I had no difficulty seeing the stipitate glands on this plant in the summer, but now I can barely see them, and I'm not sure I would have recognized the little stubs as stipitate glands if I hadn't known they should be there on this individual plant.
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Hiedras (Género Hedera)Autor
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Always a few new strands in this spot, I’ve been removing any that reach into the park
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Culantrillo Menor (Asplenium trichomanes)Autor
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Annual documentation of this patch, going strong for years in this particular crack in the rock.
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Arcángel Amarillo (Lamium galeobdolon)Autor
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From a planter disposed in the forest.
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Arbusto de Las Mariposas (Buddleja davidii)Autor
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I lost this one, a relatively new invasive on Keats but the bushes have become very established on this unstable slope that I can’t access. Well, at least the butterflies will be happy.
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A rare thicket in full sun that isn’t being consumed by blackberries. The raspberry bushes get more plentiful here each year
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Cornus nuttalliiAutor
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Progress check in of my favourite dogwood seedling. It is 5.01 mm diameter at the base. Each of its branches has been bitten off at the tips.
Here it is with its leaves looking more identifiable:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174166455
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Líquenes (Clase Lecanoromycetes)Autor
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On rotting red alder log
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galls of Neuroterus anthracinus
Host: Quercus robur: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91923963
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Neuroterus anthracinus galls on Quercus robur
observation of the host oak: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92609068
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Rubus bifronsAutor
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Not ideal for ID without fresh floricanes, but I felt 80% confident ruling out Rubus vestitus. The old floricane was dried but I saw no stipitate glands within the inflorescence under high magnification. I felt the leaf shape also averaged a bit too pointy and the thickest primocanes looked a bit too thick.