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Carl Farmer |
Common on the shore. Also common inland in Britain as a whole but does not seem to be so in Skye. Petals enclosing fruit c 4.5 mm long. Skye ID: Fruit enclosed by 3 hardened petals that each have a white tubercle and do not have projecting teeth. Leaf-blades long and narrow (even those near the base, when full-grown, over 4x as long as broad) with margins undulating up and down. Whorls of fruit crowded together as shown. Other features: Wood Dock and Clustered Dock may also have all 3 petals with tubercles, but their petals are only c 3 mm long, and their inflorescence has a totally different appearance being well-branched, sparsely whorled, and altogether delicate-looking compared to the robust and crowded look of this species. |
