CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Sweet violets  Viola odorata  produce two types of flower - the familiar scented kind that are amongst the first wild flowers to appear in...

These strange white sheaths around the stems of grasses are the spore-producing tissue of the fungus known as choke Epichloe typhina . It...

We found some very fine specimens of dog lichen Peltigera sp. when we were out  walking at Shittlehope Burn at Stanhope in Wea...