Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Purple toothwort
Whilst looking for otter shit yesterday evening I came across this amazing growth on a decaying elder trunk. Apparently Purple toothwort is an occasional 'exotic' that turns up in Hampshire and other discrete parts of the UK. A truly cracking plant! 
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I've often seen these on old trees down by the Cam - strange and beautiful, aren't they?
There's some big patches of it in Sheffield Botanical Gardens - growing on the roots of a poplar.
They pop up in Dutch parksites occasionely. I fotographed mine in a park in The Hague. On my blog I didn't give details for fear of vandalism
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