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Yes, looks like a hybrid between a muppet and a Christmas decoration - where on earth did you find this thing? is it a natural photo - I mean have you removed or added structures, styled its hair or something? I find it hard to believe that there are such creatures among our flora PS - I was very bu...

Euphorbia melitensis - endemic - somewhat localised but quite common in certain habitats

Thanks very much - a very clear explanation indeed 40 years experience in plant systematics seems to give far better results than going around the countryside looking for nice, big, showy, fancy plants

A question for jackpot

Can you please illuminate me as to how you managed to identify this one - what makes a root of Lemna any different from the roots of many other plants that are not hydrophytes?

Congratulations

No - Veronica cymbalaria is something else (although it is in the same family)

The synonym of Linaria cymbalaria is Cymbalaria muralis - it is quite frequent on walls around the Balzan Area - a good part of my brother's yard in B'Kara is covered with it

Nice pic - looks like you are in some sort of National Geographic photographer or field researcher in dense forest groundcover not a Maltese botanist in a field near M"Scala - I guess that it is some sort of Persicaria that you are photographing - What is the species?

I think that greenhorn deserves the beer not me - once you confirmed that greenhorn identified the genus, it was than easy to get the species. With the flower only, i had absolutely no idea. When you put the pictures of the fruit I immediately thought of Cardiospermum , but I was under the (obviousl...

Is it Cardiospermum halicacabum?

YES PLEASE , A pic with fruit will be nice - but I think I will still have difficulty with identifying this plant - till now I still have no idea

Still no idea - I only saw Xanthium at Chadwick lakes, and did not see any plants climbing over it

Tikber u titghallem

Yes, it does have 3 pairs of legs just like the adult, which it uses for swimming and crawling on the bottom. Since they are a sort of transparent yellow colour, they would not easily be seen. As Keith rightly said it bites badly- in fact it is a voracious cannibalistic predator, since fellow diving...

Yes, Keith - I am sure that you are right - I have frequently observed diving beetles at Chadwick Lakes, but never noticed the larva - I think the mystery has been solved.

Boqq

- however from the photo it seems to show external segmentation, and that will rule out the possibility of reptiles or amphibians - there are too little segments for a worm, so it must be some sort of aquatic insect larva

Like, you wolf, even though it should be common I first found P.oleracea a couple of weeks ago - along a path near fields at Lija, where there are quite a few - however, I would probably have missed it due to my near total aestivation - i just hate the hot summer sun

Person A is living a nice, sweet dream, unaware of the real world outside - I would say very few dozens

I think it must be rather infrequent or rare - I have never found it or noticed it myself - good find - I had no idea of what it was - I did try to look up a few sources but did not manage to arrive anywhere. It is high time that I start looking more carefully at these less spectacular and more diff...

So are you actually in Malta right now?

Yes, now that the lizards are in all probability extinct in the wild, a plan to control the rats and rehabilitate Selmunett is about to start - how timely and efficient :!: Given that the authorities have been kept informed about the rapid, progressive decline of the subspecific lizard population at...

You are right to be shocked - it is worrying indeed - I have been there very recently - in most places the water has now gone, but there was a thick mat of semi-dessicated algae in many areas - no wonder nitrophilous alien plants seem to keep on increasing indefinitely in our valley systems, especia...

At what time of the year does it flower?

Ok, very good so now we can look forward to two books not one, one hopefully quite soon and one quite some time later - such books are always very welcome

Ah, now it is much better - Cardiospermum, probably Cardiospermum hirsutum (= C. grandiflorum) - I have never come across Cardiospermum, and it is not recorded in Haslam's flora so I did not consider it as a possibility - these quizzes are nice because you always end up learning new things

I think you are probably right regarding the widened standard, which could rule out T. nigrescens - perhaps the shape of the standard looks more like that of T. campestre , which is also common but which does not seem to form such nice mats as those formed by T.nigrescence, of course assuming that I...

I have completely run out of ideas

Looking at it that way, there certainly is a good reason to have some more respect for ornamentals - I like them because many are somewhat unusual, fancy and spectacular like that Chorisia - thanks I now know what it is - (I am sure that they would look even better in their natural habitat) but i kn...

I may very well be wrong, but i do think it is Trifolium - as to the species I just put forward a guess based on MWPs clues - there is no way I can honestly try to identify it to the species from that photo