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Plants in University of Bristol Botanic Garden

Veltheimia bracteata or forest lily

These plants are mentioned in podcast 194

Arabica coffee plant (Coffea arabica)

-Arabica coffee plant (Coffea arabica, pictured)

Avon Gorge plants:
Bristol whitebeam (Sorbus bristoliensis)
Bristol onion (Allium sphaerocephalon)
Bristol rock cress (Arabis scabra)
Honewort (Trinia glauca)

-Common thyme or garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris)

-Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva), pollinated by butterflies that are active during the day,
nightlily or citron lily (H. citrina), pollinated by nocturnal hawkmoths

-Forest liliy (Veltheimia bracteata, photograph)
-Loosestrife (Lysimachia)
The genus is named in honor of Lysimachus, a king of ancient Sicily, who is said to have calmed a mad ox by feeding it a member of the genus …

-Marigold (Tagetes)
-Morrow’s sedge (Carex morrowii), wind pollinated
-Phlox
-Poppy (Papaver)
-Purpletop vervain or talll verbena (Verbenia bonariensis)
-Rocket (confusing common name which can refer to plants like:
Eruca vesicaria (annual) or Diplotaxis tenuifolia (perennial)
-Showy stonecrop, iceplant, butterfly stonecrop (Hylotelephium spectabile syn. Sedum spectabile)
-Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata)


Of all the flowering plants, Magnolia was a pioneer.
It already existed 95 million years ago!
This was before the earth had bees. Dinosaurs plodded around.

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)

Water cabbage (Pistia stratiotes, pictured)

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