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| 11th July 2005, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Large and showy yellow flowers with distinctive long stamens tipped with orange pollen. |
| 11th July 2005, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Five large yellow petals smothered in a hundred or more long stamens. |
| 11th July 2005, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Each stamen is tipped with an anther bearing orange pollen. |
| 11th July 2005, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves are alternately opposite, oval and glossy, almost laurel-like. Unopened flower buds are green and spherical. Spent ones devoid of petals and with the typical Hypericum shape (far left). |
| 11th July 2005, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| The spent flower sheds its petals first. |
| 11th July 2005, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaving just the three sepals and a large fruiting body. |
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 Hypericum |
