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Title: Can you help ID this woodland flower
Post by: BarriedaleNick on April 13, 2011, 19:24:26

Saw this in a wood in Kent..
Seems to be a flower growing directly out of the ground - is it a ferm of some sort??

Can you help ID this woodland flower

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_ViKV0O_Xvmc/TaXpt7EB47I/AAAAAAAAL_k/8fSAKoOcOeQ/s1152/DSC_0436.jpg)

Title: Re: Can you help ID this woodland flower
Post by: Bugloss2009 on April 13, 2011, 19:30:42

it's the common toothwort, a parasitic plant on hazel

Title: Re: Can you help ID this woodland flower
Post by: BarriedaleNick on April 14, 2011, 07:41:27

Thanks Bugloss!

Title: Re: Can you help ID this woodland flower
Post by: Uncle_Filthster on April 14, 2011, 11:46:26

Good find and not very common at all. It doesn't hang around long when it flowers and my local patch has seemingly disappeared, or I just can't find it!

Title: Re: Can you help ID this woodland flower
Post by: pigeonseed on April 14, 2011, 21:38:30

How fascinating!

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