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29 Autumn 2005 Newsletter of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust’s Flora Group Autumn 2005 Dear Flora Group Member The Flora Group committee members hope that you had an enjoyable summer and we look forward to seeing you at some of the events over the next few months. As always, we are keen to receive your suggestions for events and activities and we are already acting on some of the ideas raised at the AGM earlier this year. Please send any ideas to Catherine Chatters (Flora Group Secretary). Catherine’s address and telephone number are given at the end of this newsletter. Sunday 2 October 2005, 10.30am (meet at 10.15am) John Poland is working with Eric Clement and Debbie Allen Vegetative identification training day in Royden on the much-needed ‘Vegetative Key to the British Flora’. Woods H&IoWWT reserve Leader: John Poland For further details of the event please e-mail John at The use of vegetative characters has been somewhat [email protected] or phone 0771 4568361 neglected in the identification of plants. However, as for (mobile). most of the year leaves provide the only visible indication of a species’ presence it is often essential to be able to October/November 2005 identify them…correctly! Waxcap Foray Leaders: John Norton and Neil Sanderson The purpose of the meeting will be to encourage Neil Sanderson and John Norton will be leading a foray for participants to identify plants using previously over- waxcaps (Hygrocybe) and other interesting grassland fungi looked characters including hydathodes and vascular some time this autumn, providing a good crop comes up. bundles in additional to more well known characters. See Neil’s article in the Spring 2005 edition of Flora News Participants may also be able to contribute their own (page 6) for some background on these conservation-worthy tricks and tips, which they have found useful in clinching and photogenic species. Because the waxcap season is so identification of similar species. The meeting is not unpredicatable, the meeting may be held at short notice. If intended to be a complicated taxonomic workshop and you are interested in coming along please e-mail, telephone everyone is welcome! or write to John and he will contact you once a date has been fixed. A range of habitats will be explored in Royden Woods. Please wear stout footwear and bring a packed lunch and Contact: John Norton, 215 Forton Road, Gosport, PO12 a hand lens (if you have one). Meet at 10.15 am at the 3HB [email protected] Filly Inn car park at Setley on the A336 south of Tel 023 9252 0828 Brockenhurst. We will then drive on to Royden Woods from there, to start the event at 10.30am. Flora News Page 1 Autumn 2005 Sunday 6 November 2005, 10.30 am people with this very early flowering sedge, we will disperse Conservation work party for Arabis glabra, Tower widely by car to check on several older known sites in Vice- Mustard (joint meeting with Plantlife). counties 8 and 11. Meet 10.30am at Kingsley Centre car park, beside the Contact: Martin Rand 023 8036 0395 B3004, in Kingsley itself, opposite the church at SU787381. The aim is to remove encroaching brambles Saturday 6 May 2006, 10.30am and scrub that are swamping a site for Tower Mustard, a Advance notice of Flora Group AGM with visit to nationally endangered species. Some refreshments, tools Shortheath Common and Binswood. and work gloves will be provided. The site is a very steep Leader: Tony Mundell bank so bring walking boots. If you wish to stay more Meet in Shortheath Pond car park at SU774369. For over 40 than a couple of hours bring a packed lunch. The event years Shortheath Pond has been well known for an will finish no later than 3pm. abundance of an alien water plant, Sagittaria subulata, Contact: Tony Mundell 01252 614516. Narrow-leaved Arrowhead. Apart from the pond we will visit the adjacent bog which has Vaccinium oxycoccus, Thursday 10 November 2005, 10.30 am Cranberry, and the nearby woodland at Binswood. This will Conservation work party for Filago lutescens, Red- provide an opportunity to see many different plants in a tipped Cudweed. variety of habitats. Relative beginners are especially Meet 10.30am north of Fleet at SU813563, at entrance to welcome and the intention is to provide some basic advice Broomhurst Farm, beside the B3013, just north of the on recording, together with help in identifying common bridge over the M3. plants. Bring a packed lunch. During our lunch break we will hold a brief and informal AGM. The main aim is to disturb the sandy soil so that seeds of this rare annual plant can germinate. A secondary aim is Sunday 11 June 2006, 10am to remove encroaching scrub nearby. Some tools will be Sedge Identification Training Day in New Forest provided but bring stout gloves and a mattock or garden Leader: Martin Rand fork if you have one. If you wish to stay more than a This meeting will continue from the training day in 2005 by couple of hours bring a packed lunch. The event will introducing further sedges and sedge relatives of heath, acid finish no later than 3pm (and possibly much earlier). grassland and bog. Numbers will be limited and booking Contact: Tony Mundell 01252 614516. will be essential. Meet in Yewtree Bottom car park at SU253003. Saturday 19 November 2005, 2pm – 5pm Contact: Martin Rand, 023 8036 0395 Flora Group / BSBI Exhibition Meeting Testwood Lakes Centre, Totton, SU345155 Saturday 17 June 2006, 10.30 am to 4pm We will continue this traditional autumn get-together / Visit to Eelmoor Marsh SSSI. social event, so please bring along cakes and other Leaders: Tony Mundell & Chris Hall goodies to eat, plus your specimens, photos, material for This is advance notice of a rare chance to visit this superb display boards, and any other botanical talking point. site, with a rich bog flora including both species of Tony Mundell will show some slides of Hampshire plants; Butterwort. Numbers will be limited to 30 people and booking please bring along a few of your own to show if you can will be essential, but bookings will not be taken until the next (but only species found in Hampshire!). (Spring 2006) issue of Flora News appears. Meet in car park at Cody Gate entrance to QinetiQ, Farnborough SU844543. Testwood Lakes Centre is reached from Brunel Road, a turning off the A36 at a roundabout between Totton and Sunday 30 July 2006, Visit to Micheldever Spoils Ower. After entering Brunel Road, look for a small turning Reserve on the left after the first block of industrial units. Go along Afternoon only, 2pm to 5pm, meeting in car park at the the track, ignoring the first (public) car park, until the reserve entrance SU521445. Centre comes into view above the lake. There is plenty of Leaders: Michael Edwards & Tony Mundell parking there. This is advance notice – further details to follow in the next (Spring 2006) issue of Flora News. This site has large Saturday 25 March 2006, 10.30am numbers of Teucrium botrys (Cut-leaved Germander), Rare Plant Register meeting for Carex humilis, Dwarf Potentilla neumanniana (Spring Cinquefoil) and Galeopsis Sedge, Martin and Rockbourne areas. angustifolia (Red Hemp-nettle) plus several other rarities. Leader: Martin Rand Car parking will have to be limited to 10 cars so it will be Meet at Martin Down car park, SU057191. necessary to book (preference will be given to a car full of Dwarf Sedge has a stronghold on Martin Down and people!). Bookings will not be taken until the next (Spring adjacent downland, but seems to be faring badly in many 2006) issue of Flora News appears so you have time to sort of its outlying Hampshire sites and has been lost from out who else you could bring! some. After a visit to Martin Down NNR to familiarise Flora News Page 2 Autumn 2005 Sunday 27 August 2006 A beginner’s introduction to ferns Leader: Fred Rumsey Fred Rumsey of the Natural History Museum has kindly offered to lead a training day to introduce people to ferns. This event is aimed at complete beginners or those with little knowledge of ferns. Fred will concentrate on the biology of ferns and will help with the identification of species likely to be found in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The event will involve both indoor and outdoor sessions. Further details regarding times, venue etc will be given in the Spring 2006 edition of Flora News. In the meantime you might like to put the date in your diary. Polypodium cambricum (Southern Polypody) growing epiphytically on oak bough. Polypody Identification in the New Forest - 5 February 2005 This meeting jointly held with the British Pteridological Society produced one of the best ever turnouts for a Flora Group meeting, with around 70 people present including national fern experts Chris Page, Martin Rickard and Fred Rumsey. In the morning we enjoyed a pleasant stroll around Hollands Wood, near Lyndhurst, where we were enthusiastically tutored on the genetics, morphology and life-history of this difficult and poorly-understood group. Here, the two less common species: Polypodium interjectum (Intermediate Polypody) and P. cambricum (Southern Polypody) grow in profusion as epiphytes on old Pedunculate Oaks, though the latter species is more often thought of as characteristic of old walls and rock exposures. We also saw a probable hybrid between P. vulgare (Common Polypody) and P. interjectum (Polypodium x mantoniae). Several colonies of atypical Professor Chris Page (centre) at New Forest Polypody plants were seen that seemed puzzling even to the meeting, 5 February 2005, with vice-county recorders Tony experts.
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