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Thanks - I was in aestivation

I have just bought the book - it really is a very good (and inexpensive) book - congratulations to Birdlife Malta, authors and photographers - you have done an excellent job - photos are really top quality - the book is definitely a must for all those interested in local biodiversity.

Will definitely be buying it... and very soon

It will definitely be a superb christmas gift and will hopefully fill up a particularly large empty space within the botany section of my brain - I am utterly hopeless at recognising ornamentals and know next to nothing about them... it will be very much appreciated

Well the caterpillar of the spurge hawkmoth cannot be ignored either - a pretty spectacular fellow he is

Conchiolin, you are getting prettier as you grow up!

Boq - the leaves look very much like Pistacia lentiscus

That is not the Cape sorrel (Oxalis pes-caprae) but rather the Creeping wood Sorrel (Oxalis corniculata) - it is quite frequent in late Spring

Yep wolf, you are very right indeed- I know that it is the wrong attitude and that they are actually pretty nice plants Regarding G.tomentosa, it is a bore but the problem is not the plant in itself but rather the way in which human activities are affecting habitats - it is after all a plant that is...

For me - dawk kollha xewk - hopeless at thistles - they tend to be summer plants when I am in botanical aestivation

Thanks robcar not pine

Nice pic - pity the fellow was in a rather tattered condition - the photo would have been even better

I will definitely buy it as soon as it hits the shops here

Well, it is then good for us that you are so busy

I also photographed this thing near Mgarr Gozo

Well - sort of ok :wink: This is what I think although I am definitely no expert on micropropagation - In general I say no micropropagation unless absolutely necessary - eg for growing orchids from seeds in vitro . However, although perhaps not absolutely necessary micropropagation may also be very ...

There are six species of hawk moth in Malta (excluding another one which has only been recorded a couple of times) - two of these are somewhat similar to the one in your photo (Hyles sp.) Your photo is not the endemic H. sammuti (H.tithymali sammuti) - it is in fact Hyles livornica (Striped hawk mot...

Congrats conchiolin for your new Avatar! Simply the best!

I don't think that there is any reason to declare war on this plant - it may be difficult to remove and can be a pest in some gardens and yards - so if it bothers you guys in your gardens, go ahead and attack it. However, although it may be a pest in such places, it is more or less confined to small...

Should be Tragopogon hybridus - scarce or rare (info from Weber) - I have never come across it myself

Carex sp, probably Carex flacca - I had posted a picture of what looks to be the same plant for identification quite some time ago - in fact it was my first post on the forum

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Even I only met it only once last year - it was growing in a patch of dust on the tarmac of our parking area at work

It is not B. romana - looks like Muscari commosum

I think that it is Silene nocturna

agree 100% - there is a general apathy from the public about environmental matters, from both older and young people (of course not everybody) - the life of many seems to revolve just around parties, playstations, their mp3, their car and of course their sex life ...) - if those are ok everything is...

Nice new profile (I guess it is new since I have never come across it before) - photographed against the light (as shown in the quiz photo) it does look different from a the rest of the O. fusca group However in the more 'normal' photos it does look rather similar to the rest of the group - I do not...

Yes, it must be Matthiola incana subsp. melitensis - Is this somewhere around the Dwejra area (Gozo) ? - there are quite some large plants over there.

Why not Hippocrepis multisiliquosa?

A mistake is the scientific name of Orkida piramidali ta' Malta which should be A. urvilleana not A. pyramidalis

I hope it is the only one

Then it is O. caesiella?