byron 1,279 Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 photo taken on local sand dunes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 Nice one Byron! I haven't seen that stuff in thirty years. Likely never will do again. And yet, for some damn unplacable reason; I'm often thinking of it! Isn't it also known as something very much like " Eryngo " ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,279 Posted July 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 Nice one Byron! I haven't seen that stuff in thirty years. Likely never will do again. And yet, for some damn unplacable reason; I'm often thinking of it! Isn't it also known as something very much like " Eryngo " ? eryngium maritimum. lovely looking thing eh, felt like digging it up [only joking] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zek 0 Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 Nice one Byron! I haven't seen that stuff in thirty years. Likely never will do again. Head out west to Mayo, and you'll find it - Not sure about Sligo. Years ago they used to sugar the roots as a candy and eat them - or so I've read. I think there's a cultivated form as well, maybe in a different colour too. Zek. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,279 Posted July 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 Nice one Byron! I haven't seen that stuff in thirty years. Likely never will do again. Head out west to Mayo, and you'll find it - Not sure about Sligo. Years ago they used to sugar the roots as a candy and eat them - or so I've read. I think there's a cultivated form as well, maybe in a different colour too. Zek. this one was a wild un. only small, but like you say cultivated ones alot bigger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 Yeppers. Check out Eryngium campestre. Field Eryngo. 'Naturalised' around Shropshire, uk, since 1840 (Blamey, Fitter & Fitter. 2003). Sea Holly ~ same source ~ is to be found right the way down the east and along the southern coasts of Eire. Also, oddly, in the 'Galway Bay' district. Maps are a bit dodgy for me to decipher right now. But they might well be saying Mayo too. Almost certainly not Sligo. I would remark on that as strange. But then, I found mine in one singular location in the south eastern corner of a small city (Portsmouth) on the central south coast of england. Might have seen it some fifteen, twenty miles east, at Pagham Harbour? Old memory's as shafted as the eyes these days. But, anyway, it's a choosey sort of plant. Likes its own perculiarities of soil type, it seems. And it's a cracker to look upon! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zek 0 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 in the 'Galway Bay' district. Maps are a bit dodgy for me to decipher right now. But they might well be saying Mayo too. Try the right habitat on the Mullet Pen. if you're ever out that way - I reckon there's plants and animals out there still to be discovered Zek. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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