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Buttercup Family [Ranunculaceae] |
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Pappus: (off-white, long, compound) |
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10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
A rampant climber which scrambles up other shrubs and trees up to 4m. (The red berries belong to the supporting tree). |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are pendant and bell-shaped when open. |
30th July 2014, a garden, Berry Brow, Huddersfield, West Yorks. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers yellow with four petals similar to orange-peel, but yellow. Leaves quite variable in shape, usually more lobed towards the stem. |
5th July 2012, a garden, Bridgewater Canal, Cheshire. | Photo: © RWD |
Petals (actually sepals) taper to a point and are 3-5cm long. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
Flower stalk has short hairs. Numerous purplish filaments of the stamens are visible in a bunched cluster within. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
From below the multitudinous purple-turning-brown stamen filaments surround the multitudinous yellowish stigmas. The sepals look thick like lemon-peel. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
The anthers have yellow pollen. |
30th July 2014, a garden, Berry Brow, Huddersfield, West Yorks. | Photo: © RWD |
The petals eventually drop off, as do the filaments with anthers, leaving a bunch of styles which later become hair-like and whitish. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
Unusual looking-upwards view of un-opened flower. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
Larger stems may be purplish and have a couple of opposite wings. Branches in pairs, or a pair of pairs. All with very short hairs. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves are pinnate with a larger terminal leaf. Leaves cuneate to cordate, with rounded lobes or vaguely toothed. |
10th Sept 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves semi-gloss faintly veined. |
5th July 2014, Rimrose Nature Reserve, Sefton, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
Eventually the bunch of styles splays out into a pappus revealing the fine-thread like character of each. Much like do those of other Traveller's-Joys. |
Some similarities to : Japanese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi) wich has similarly-shaped pendant flowers but they are orange (not yellow) and the petals number five (rather than four). This plant belongs to the Nightshade family (Solanaceae). Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : The bell-shaped yellow pendant flowers with four yellow petals.
No relation to : This plant is a neophyte in the UK grown in gardens, from which it may escape, but is native to China. It has several toxic components such as triterpenoid saponins with many sugar moieties (usually five) within and can also be allergenic to touch. Most have no common names, only extremely long chemical names, so are unlikely to get drawn here.
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Buttercup Family [Ranunculaceae] |