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Jo Parmenter

@jo-the-botanist.bsky.social

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Norfolk-based #BSBI #IAmABotanist & consultant ecologist (semi-retired, in order to spend more time looking at plants). Hobbies/Interests: looking at plants. Oh, and I cook things, too (including plants). Need help with a plant? Try #WildFlowerID

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · Dec 8

#Reedham in Norfolk (my village) is famous for its chain ferry but so few of the people who visit the ferry realise that stiff saltmarsh-grass Puccinellia rupestris grows profusely around what my SatNav proudly announces to be the ferry port! It seems to have had a 'good year' here.

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sure you're not alone there... if you go back, let me know and I'll try and get you some high res grids.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 14h

Might have been mentioned already, but plants are really good at staying put for at least a few weeks ....

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 20h

Yay, congrats to @willgeorge.bsky.social on finding a York Groundsel!
@bsbicountries.bsky.social was hunting for one the other day, but they are hard to find at this time of year.

Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

Found this in York. It's a groundsel, but is it a York Groundsel?! @bramblebotanist.bsky.social

A phone photo of a plant with yellow flowers and green toothed leaves

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 20h

Very different (once you 'get your eye in') 😊

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The National Plant Monitoring Scheme @npms.bsky.social · 2d

Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/rNw750X4fAH Talk by @bsbicountries.bsky.social on why collecting botanical data is important for other organisations. This event is hosted by @bsbibotany.bsky.social, 1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 2d

A trip up the road to Port Meadow, Oxford today. Stumbled on the marvellous Mudwort Limosella aquatica: easily hundreds, likely thousands. Also, might the orange blob in the last image be a fungal growth? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 2d

Yes please!!

Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 2d

That could work - what time and when - did you want to share a car?

Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

@norfolkponds.bsky.social a (possibly impossible) challenge for you!!

Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social · 3d

I would love to find out the cytotype of R. tripartitus when it turns up in newly dug pond in a new county.
Or find out how related they are to other populations.

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 3d

Red bistort escaped into a road edge on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

Looked this up an hour or so ago - ours was only the 4th record for west Norfolk.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 3d

One of thousands of corn spurry seen on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm - I think marigold petals are edible... there's an idea for next year!

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

Never caught it in flower - maybe next year... or the one after.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 3d

Leersia oryzoides (Cut Grass) 😍 First plant in the BSBI handbook, has always felt like a bit of a mythical species. I finally made the trip down to meet this incredible plant at Amberley Wildbrooks last week. #wildflowerhour

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An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 3d

Fraoch na haon chose / St Dabeoc's Heath brightening up the day in North Connemara in County Galway for #WildflowerHour

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Life expectancy was 60.

And it's "LEICESTER" you gormless idiot.

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

Ah well - we still had 'fun'. We'll forget the driving rain and wind and just remember the glorious Bistorta amplexicaule :)

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 4d

The landscape, lacking in shelter - winds horizontal, rain lashing, leaves turned inside out. Summer's last flowers fading. Winter wheat scurrying. Beets fattening their feet in clay. Rooks and gulls whirled away.
Miles to walk.

A beet field in NW Norfolk under a wide, grey, windy sky.

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babsspence.bsky.social @babsspence.bsky.social · 3d

An unexpectedly floriferous arable edge in Oxfordshire with plentiful Round-leaved and Sharp-leaved Fluellen (Kickxia spuria & K. elatine), along with Small Toadflax, Scarlet Pimpernel, Field Madder, Treacle-mustard and much else.

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

These seem a bit too colorful and large for V tricolor - I suspect they're V x wittrockiana - a garden hybrid which will persist over several generations

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 3d

Yep - that's bristly ox-tongue - it's pretty tough and will continue Until it gets too frosty

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