Town Hall Clock
Today I met two of my friends for lunch at the Old Forge pub at Otterbourne near Winchester. Afterwards we went for a walk in the woods by the River Itchen Navigation. I was delighted to find a clump of the diminutive Moschatel ( Adoxa moschatellina) in flower. It is also called the Town Hall Clock plant as the five flowers are arranged like faces on a town clock with one on top so passing pilots can read the time too! The flowers are only about 6-8 mm across, and are green, so it is not the most obvious of plants.
By coincidence, exactly a year ago, I blipped Moschatel in other local woodland.
The extra shows an old lock on the Itchen Navigation.
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