Idless Cornwall 9th August One Day Meeting
The three members that joined the two leaders on this extremely hot day enjoyed the welcome shade of the trees at Bishop's Wood. We looked at a good selection of ferns including Dryopteris x deweveri (narrow x broad buckler-fem) and Hymenophyllum tunbrigense (Tunbridge filmy-fem). Moving onto waste ground south of Truro we looked at Euphorbia serrulata (upright spurge) and an assortment of willowherbs and their hybrids with Epilobium brunnescens (New Zealand willowherb). A wall in Truro gave us Asplenium obovatum (lanceolate spleenwort) and Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea (procumbent yellow-sorrel).
A corner of an arable field that had escaped the plough yielded Briza minor (lesser quaking-grass) and Parentucellia viscosa (yellow bartsia). Carrine Common was a blaze of various shades of pink from the five species of heather and heaths growing there such as Erica ciliaris (Dorset heath) and the hybrid with E. tetralix (cross-leaved heath) E. x watsonii. The day was finished by looking at Pyrus cordata (Plymouth pear).
PAUL GREEN