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Stephen Lemon @LemonStephen

Botany, particularly sedges, bryology, habitats, landscape history and geology.

Joined January 2014
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Aberrant form of Common Spotted Orchid from Kent with strange flowers that don't appear to have spurs. Peloria or pseudopeloria?
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An impressive olive tree near Tarvin in Cheshire, with an equally impressive colony of the moss Nogopterium gracile. The tree has been in place for at least 3 years but most likely Nogopterium was already on it when imported from northern Italy. @BBSbryology
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An excellent wood for bryophytes. We saw lots of Hyocomium armoricum and Scapania undulata along the ghylls.
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An old graveyard at Southborough Common with an ancient woodland flora, including wild daffodil and a few graves that have lawns of Rhytidiadelphus loreus @BBSbryology
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Owen Leyshon@LeyshonOwen
21 Oct 2023
I had a cycle out to Ivychurch and Brenzett on the Romney Marsh to appreciate the native Black Poplars Including the native sapling in a ditch at Ivychurch near to the female tree Fantastic work by @KentFieldClub in funding DNA clonal analysis and @LemonStephen @BSBIbotany
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Peter Q D Flood@floodenheim
9 Oct 2023
Aw forget previous post - when did I ever let shit photography get in the way of posting bryo pics? Odontoschisma denudatum Barbilophozia attentuata perianths Harpanthus scutatus exciting local extras Scapania umbrosa Thanks to @Trichocolea for organising #liverworts
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The hybrid sedge Carex otrubae x divulsa, growing among colonies of both parent species, near Sevenoaks Weald. Occupying the damp base to a steep bank with its C. otrubae parent. The C. divulsa parent growing on the dryer ground above.
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'Bullet holes' created by emerging Hornet Clearwing moths, along the base hybrid poplar trees in Dartford. Very grateful to Ray Winterman for showing me these.
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Great to see Tunbridge Filmy-fern on rocks where I haven't seen it before, last weekend at Eridge Rocks
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Hay-scented Buckler-fern at the bottom of the photo, a much brighter green than the Broad Buckler-fern above it. Seen with the @BBSbryology South-east Group along the edge of the sandstone cliff face at Eridge Rocks last weekend.
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Tennis ball size nest made of Carex vesicaria, just found in a pond at Chiddingstone Reserve. Assume this is Harvest Mouse.
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Nevil Hutchinson@mrchumpley
2 Jul 2017
Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris) at Rye Harbour. @Trichocolea @LemonStephen @BSBIbotany #wildflowerhour
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A veteran coppiced ash in a shaw along a stream at Bore Place. The raised bowls produced by coppicing trees like this are a rich habitat. This one has the moss Anomodon viticulosus which is common in Kent but rarely found in the clay woods on the Low Weald.
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Owen Leyshon@LeyshonOwen
21 Jun 2023
Took an opportunity this morning to go and see if the Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus) plant was still present outside an old farm building near Maidstone, Kent Found by @LemonStephen last year A rare plant in South East England now - after a major decline @BSBIbotany
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Owen Leyshon@LeyshonOwen
21 May 2023
A guided walk for a group on Dungeness NNR, Kent today Also it is 25 years since Dungeness was designated a National Nature Reserve Against my better judgement - here is a young me in the middle with Bill Oddie 😬 #NNRWeek2023 #NationalNatureReserves #NNRweek @NaturalEngland
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A moss and lichen covered bench in St. Peter's Churchyard, Swingfield. The bryophytes include Orthotrichum tenellum, Lewinskya affinis, Pulvigera lyellii, Ulota bruchii, Cryphaea heteromalla, Hypnum cupressiforme and Metzgeria furcata.
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Rustyback and Wall-rue growing on St. Peter's Church, Swingfield.
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Rue-leaved Saxifrage on the mossy ragstone wall of the churchyard at East Sutton.
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More Leucodon sciuroides growing on 18th century ragstone gravestones, these ones in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul's at East Sutton.
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This tiny (5mm) snail was waving about on a gravestone yesterday evening at Sutton Valence feeding on a lichen, with its own coat of lichen growing over its shell.
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