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Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: dried fruit

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: dried fruit

These looked like dried pods at the top of a long thin stem in the Royal Botanical Gardens. I couldn’t see any sigh of a label for them.

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Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: pasque flowers

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: pasque flowers

It’s always nice seeing pasque flowers around Easter. These were in an alpines / rockery section of the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens.

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: pasque flowers
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Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: pond with mallard drakes

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: pond with mallard drakes

The tranquil surface of a large pond. A couple of mallard drakes swim vaguely in the direction where there are people standing, possibly with the hope of being fed.

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Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: drumstick primroses

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: drumstick primroses

More purple flowers: these are drumstick primroses.

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Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: purple toothwort

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: purple toothwort

No doubts about this flower. It’s very definitely purple, and looked at through screwed up eyes possibly resembles teeth.

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: purple toothwort
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Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: wild jasmine (not)

Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden: wild jasmine (not)

Don’t go trusting to authority. The species ID label of these flowers in the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden clearly says Jasminum humile, a now depreciated Linnean designation of the common jasmine.

It’s quite difinitely not got yellow flowers.