Mine too!

Almost more reptilian, serpentine or alien than foliaceous. Early-purple Orchid getting ready to excite in a wood near Rye, East Sussex.
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#RosetteChallenge
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A qu! Off to Winchelsea to see Polypodium cambricum again (March RPR target) & get spore sample as noted Sussex Botanical Recording Society Plant Atlas lists a P. x font-queri there. Does this hybrid have no spores, deformed spores. Not sure what I'd be looking for! Thanx Sylvatica Brad Scott

Dumortiera hirsuta (Fairlight Glen). Polypodium cambricum, Polypodium sp. prob vulagare & Umbilicus rupestris growing epiphytically on Fraxinus excelsior & abundantly on old walls (Winchelsea). More like Devon than East Sussex! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society BBSBryology Sylvatica

Primroses lifting the gloom in Houghton Wood, Rye.
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In a walk through the Babylon Down woods, Willingdon, Eastbourne, sad to see many dead Fraxinus excelsior; many still covered with Lecanora chlarotera/hybocarpa & Metzgeria furcata. Good to see 3 young Daphne laureola in the woods though Woodland Trust🌳 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
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Here come some Sussex #Spring flowers. Pick of the bunch for me...Wild Daffodils 🌾 #WistonWoods
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Dog's mercury, Mercurialis perennis, in flower; first I've seen this year. Woods below Butt's Lane Meadow NR, Willingdon, on Babylon Down. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Navelwort or Belly-button Plant or Wall Pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) growing on The Landgate, Rye. It always looks best in the rain.
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Only a quick snap but this Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser Celandine) is notable for being the first for 2024 I have seen locally here in the Sussex High Weald. Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Butcher's broom in flower - seen this week near Eastbourne, East Sussex #wildflowerhour Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Wild Daffodils are out! Just a few on the Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Burton Mill Pond reserve....it's #spring
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Female Hazel flowers are so beautiful. Lewes District Council Castle Hill NR, Newhaven; a National Trust The National Lottery Heritage Fund #changingchalk project. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Firsrt Chrysosplenium oppositifolium I have seen in flower this year. Balcombe in the High Weald National Landscape BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society Listed by Francis Rose (1999) as an Indicator of ancient woodland British Wildlife: 10 (4) 241 - 251

On 01.01.24 on a BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #NewYearFlowerHunt I spotted a Daphne laureola in Goring in West Sussex. It had buds but was not in flower. I made a note to go back in a few weeks to see what it's flowers are like. I went back today. Pleased I did. Gorgeous. Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Hmmm, could be out there in Sussex!

We've updated the website recently. As the focus is on updating the RPR we'll be posting monthly lists of plants to look for.
Members can access the historical records & sign up for RPR emails.
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Osmunda regalis, Royal Fern, in winter. On Ardingly Sandstone, High Weald, Sussex. I saw this Royal Fern first in September (pic 4). Sussex Botanical Recording Society BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland I am going to go to see how this fern is doing through the year!

My first Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna, of 2024. Plumpton, East Sussex. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society

A tiny 'sporeling' Royal Fern, Osmunda regalis; growing on the face of an Ardingly Sandstone outcrop in Sussex. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society British Pteridological Society