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The hairs on the stem can cause an allergic reaction in some individuals.

Unidentified caterpillar is rather lost crossing a marble paving-stone.

Hard to photograph because even slight puffs of breeze set the branches trembling.

Mistletoe in flower, so I finally got why it has a poetic description as the “Golden Bough”

Last year’s berries were still there, and didn’t seem to have shrivelled.

As far as I know, the nearest mistletoe to Wolverhampton grows near to the centre of Coventry. These plants were a bit further away than that, in the garden of Anne Hathaway’s cottage at Shottery.

Looking like a large buttercup, which they are indeed, and always found in damp places.

These catkins do indeed look much paler than those of the commoner black poplar.