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NORWICH: Mid May periwinkle fungi

Mid May 2021

The highlight of this weeks wanderings was to finally catch up with Subterranean Clover growing in Earlham Cemetery. Having initially walked past a large patch of it, Ian Senior was able to point out that I had almost been standing on a patch. Closer to the city I noticed some Greater Periwinkle with fungi on the leaves, which turned out to be a whole community of a mildew, Golvinomyces vincae, a rust Puccinia vincae and a parasitic fungus growing on the rust, Tuberculina sbrozzii

 






A couple of aphids were also of interest, Acyrthosiphon pisum on Broom and Callipterinella calliptera on Birch.




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