"MCC" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:58:11 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling wrote:

On 29 Jan, 02:57, "Eric Ingham" wrote:
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It's a lovely website run by Charles Winpenny. I'm a regular.

Jack

Me too! His knowledge of the flora and fauna make it very special.

Eric

He's just updated it, click on recent photos 'Newquay' to see the ones
I was refering to. Amazingly there is a hottentot fig in flower in the
latest batch of photos. It is a meditteranean climate (from S African)
plant, which normally flowers in Summer, not January.

Graham
Penzance

The National Trust doesn't like Hottentot Figs growing on their land
because they have been destroying every plant they see growing on Trust
property on the Lizard.
Vandals!
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MCC


There is an Independent newspaper article at
http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...fe-399433.html
which discusses Hottentot fig and other alien invaders.

It seems that it will be illegal, if the schedule is accepted, to plant
Hottentot fig even if it is growing outside your door. It clearly is causing
competition problems in some places with native plant species. For example
in Jersey it is smothering native heather and gorse and the same is true in
Bournemouth where it is being removed from the cliffs to protect indigenous
plants.

Alan
St Albans