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| August, Fletchers Branch, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
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| August, Turton & Entwistle Reservoirs, Belmont, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
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| August, Fletchers Branch, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
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| August, Fletchers Branch, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
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| August, Fletchers Branch, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
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| August, Hollingworth Branch of Ashton Canal, Daisy Nook. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves of a young plant only a foot tall as yet. |
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Himalayan Balsam is another weed out of control in the UK. It colonises the banks of fresh-watercourses very easily, both rivers and canals.
The flowers smell sickly sweet. The seed pods, when ripe and touched, suddenly release pent-up elastic energy, catapulting the seeds out up to a distance of 12 metres. It thus readily spreads. ANY TEXT GOES HERE
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