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Dyer’s rocket flowers reaching upwards

20 August 2015 by David

Dyer's rocket flowers reaching upwards

Yellow flowers of dyer’s rocket up the plant’s tall, elegant stem. Now a common weed or wildflower according to taste, the plant was an important source of textile dye until the invention of synthetic alternatives in the Victorian age.

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