Anogramma leptophylla




This week I went looking for the rare Jersey fern. In the past there was a large population stretching along this hedge bank. Sadly the population was extremely vulnerable to traffic and most of it was recently destroyed by a lorry. With this in mind I went to the location expecting not to find any examples of this unusual fern.
I did find some specimens however and was pleased to see that although the population was small it had not been wiped out completely.


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rue+des+Tranquesous/@49.4492274,-2.602507,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x480d717d69886b93:0xa34cab2409f6f137 If any of you reading this are ever in Guernsey here is the location. Opposite a lone Hawthorn on a hedge bank on this road, it always seems to grow alongside Lunularia cruciate.

Native and introduced flora of Guernsey

 

ADOXACEAE

Viburnum tinus L.

Laurustinus

G.J.L Garnett #0001

Collected on February 13^th 2014

 

Multi stemmed evergreen shrub. Dark green evergreen foliage is simple and entire with leaves oppositely arranged. Compound umbel inflorescence. Hermaphroditic flowers are an off white colour.

Growing in car park alongside a busy road. Similarly sized evergreen shrubs to the north, west and east of the plant, open side facing south. Soil a cambisol with 1cm of moist, partially decomposed leaf litter. Very likely to have been planted as an ornamental, neatly pruned domed canopy with dense foliage nearly reaching the ground.

Flowers on inflorescences only open on south facing side of the plant.