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Water Mint Mentha aquatica, Compton Park pool

Water Mint Mentha aquatica, Compton Park pool

Water Mint (Mentha aquatica) flowering in Compton Park pool. While the individual plants are attractive, they are forming an understorey with a mass of bulrushes, wehich together are encroaching on. all the open water.

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Suede bolete by a roadside

Suede bolete by a roadside

Suede boletes, growing round one of the trees on the pavement near the Stafford Road / Waterloo Road roundabout.. Boletes are a group of mushrooms which have pores rather than gills on the undersides of their caps. This species is quite common in town in the autumn.

Suede bolete by a roadside

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Blue-green fungus on a log, Old Nursery wood

Blue-green fungus on a log, Old Nursery wood

Mould like fungus, white with a blue-green patina, growing on one of the logs marking the edge of a path through Old Nursery Wood.

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Rooting shank, Northycote Farm

Rooting shank, Northycote Farm

Rooting shank (Hymenopellis radicata) growing in short grass in the open space next to the Northycote Farm wood.

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Purple loosestrife, very tall, Bantock Park

Purple loosestrife, very tall, Bantock Park

Purple loosestrife, growing by the pool at Bantock Park. Some of the plants were very tall, rising well up to my eye level.

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Searching a hole, squirrel, Bantock Park

Searching a hole, squirrel, Bantock Park

Cheeky Bantock Park squirrel ran across the path right in front of me, and started up a tree trunk. It paused half way up, kept one eye on me, and thrust one foreleg into a hole in the tree.