Bryophytes

Low Weald ancient pasture woodland: trees and lichens at Ebernoe Common. 18.11.24

Sim Elliott

Nov 209 min read

Low Weald ancient pasture woodland: trees and lichens at Ebernoe Common. 18.11.24

Ebernoe is dominated by old wood pasture where Commoners would have turned out their cattle or pigs to graze and browse on young trees...

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Ancient Woodland of the Surrey Low Weald: Honesland Wood and Staffhurst Wood. 16.11.24

Sim Elliott

Nov 197 min read

Ancient Woodland of the Surrey Low Weald: Honesland Wood and Staffhurst Wood. 16.11.24

The lure for visiting Staffhurst Wood was reading its SSSI specification which says: The old oak trees support a rich lichen flora...

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Exploring the diversity of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in Sussex Wildlife Trust's Selwyns Wood. 07.05.24

Sim Elliott

May 126 min read

Exploring the diversity of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in Sussex Wildlife Trust's Selwyns Wood. 07.05.24

Selwyns Wood is a small nature reserve south of Cross-in-Hand, near Heathfield, East Sussex. It can be reached by the 29A Brighton & Hove...

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Ashcombe Bottom, East Sussex. Relict ancient woodland on the South Downs. Birds, vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen & fungi. 01.04.21

Sim Elliott

Apr 36 min read

Ashcombe Bottom, East Sussex. Relict ancient woodland on the South Downs. Birds, vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen & fungi. 01.04.21

Ashcombe Bottom, 4km west of Lewes, is one of the very few ancient woodlands left on the East Sussex Downs. Owen Johnson (1998) The...

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Handsome Woollywort and other bryophytes in a High Weald ghyll wood, East Sussex, 25.03.24

Sim Elliott

Mar 284 min read

Handsome Woollywort and other bryophytes in a High Weald ghyll wood, East Sussex, 25.03.24

This post focusses on the bryophytes of a ghyll wood in the High Weald National Landscape. Common Tamarisk-Moss; Endive Pellia and...

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Butt's Meadow and Babylon Down, Eastbourne. 17.02.24

Sim Elliott

Mar 44 min read

Butt's Meadow and Babylon Down, Eastbourne. 17.02.24

I reached Butt's Meadow by train and bus from Brighton. I got the train from Brighton to Polegate (4 trains and hour, 2 direct, 2 change...

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Castle Hill Local Nature Reserve, Newhaven. 16.02.24

Sim Elliott

Feb 256 min read

Castle Hill Local Nature Reserve, Newhaven. 16.02.24

I reached Castle Hill by bus from Brighton. I got the 12X bus to Newhaven Lower Place (journey time ca. 30 mins; 12: bus; 40 mins; 12A...

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The woodland of Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve, Burgess Hill. 09.02.24

Sim Elliott

Feb 247 min read

The woodland of Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve, Burgess Hill. 09.02.24

I reached Bedelands Farm by train from Brighton. I got the train to Wivelsfield (direct trains, two an hour, journey time 18mins, or...

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JNCC UK Biodiversity Action Plan UK Priority Species - seen in Sussex in 2023

Sim Elliott

Dec 31, 20231 min read

JNCC UK Biodiversity Action Plan UK Priority Species - seen in Sussex in 2023

These are the species I saw on the JNCC UK Biodiversity Action Plan UK lists (last updated 2007). These are the species conservation...

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Sheepwash Gill, St Leonard's Forest; relic Atlantic period bryophytes of 5000 years ago. 19.10.23

Sim Elliott

Oct 20, 20238 min read

Sheepwash Gill, St Leonard's Forest; relic Atlantic period bryophytes of 5000 years ago. 19.10.23

St. Leonard’s Forest SSSI (84.5 ha) supports remnants of a formerly more extensive deciduous forest on the Tunbridge Wells Sands...

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Two special finds: Dumortier's Liverwort & Epiphytic Polypody Ferns at Fairlight Glen. 14.10.23

Sim Elliott

Oct 14, 20235 min read

Two special finds: Dumortier's Liverwort & Epiphytic Polypody Ferns at Fairlight Glen. 14.10.23

I visited Fairlight Glen on 14.10.23 to enjoy its amazing bryophytes and ferns; I was hoping to find Dumortier's Liverwort Dumortiera...

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Rock Wood SSSI, Heron's Ghyll, East Sussex: Bryophytes, Lichen, Ferns & Fungi. 13.10.23

Sim Elliott

Oct 14, 20236 min read

Rock Wood SSSI, Heron's Ghyll, East Sussex: Bryophytes, Lichen, Ferns & Fungi. 13.10.23

Rock Wood is an SSSI noted for its oceanic bryophytes and it can be reached by the 29 Bus from Brighton; alight at Hendall Gate Farm...

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Wakehurst Woods SSSI, West Sussex: Lichens, Bryophytes & Ferns. 04.10.23

Sim Elliott

Oct 5, 20239 min read

Wakehurst Woods SSSI, West Sussex: Lichens, Bryophytes & Ferns. 04.10.23

The Wakehurst Woods are part of a larger SSSI: The Wakehurst & Chiddingly Woods SSSI; Wakehurst Woods are to the west of Kew's Wakehurst...

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Northpark Copse, West Sussex. Ancient Chestnut stools & their many Bryophytes 08.09.23.

Sim Elliott

Sep 10, 20238 min read

Northpark Copse, West Sussex. Ancient Chestnut stools & their many Bryophytes 08.09.23.

Northpark Copse is an SSSI but it is not a nature reserve; however there are public footpaths which run through the copse. It is located...

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Worth Church & Worthlodge Forest; a relic of the former Worth royal hunting forest. 01.09.23

Sim Elliott

Sep 2, 20236 min read

Worth Church & Worthlodge Forest; a relic of the former Worth royal hunting forest. 01.09.23

Worthlodge Forest is a relic of the former Royal hunting forest of Worth. Worth Forest has a more unified block of near-continuous...

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Coed Lletywalter, Coed Aber Artro, Coed Cymerau Isaf & Coed Garth 16-18.08.23

Sim Elliott

Aug 23, 20239 min read

Coed Lletywalter, Coed Aber Artro, Coed Cymerau Isaf & Coed Garth 16-18.08.23

From the 16th to the 18th of August, whilst on holiday in Porthmadog, I visited four smaller Oak Woodlands. This post contains the...

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Coed Felenrhyd and Llennyrch, Maentwrog, Wales. Wild flowers, ferns, bryophytes & lichens. 15.08.23

Sim Elliott

Aug 23, 202310 min read

Coed Felenrhyd and Llennyrch, Maentwrog, Wales. Wild flowers, ferns, bryophytes & lichens. 15.08.23

Coed Felenrhyd & Llennyrch is a rare, Atlantic oak woodland and one of our largest woods in Wales. It sits above the Vale of Ffestiniog...

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Nap Wood; a High Weald Ghyll Wood, East Sussex. Trees, Fungi, Bryophytes & Lichen. 31.07.23

Sim Elliott

Jul 31, 20233 min read

Nap Wood; a High Weald Ghyll Wood, East Sussex. Trees, Fungi, Bryophytes & Lichen. 31.07.23

A wonderful opportunity to walk along an ancient sunken drovers pathway through woodland. The one mile circuitous route takes the walker...

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East Head, West Sussex. Flowering Plants, especially glassworts, Bryophytes and Lichens 24.07.23

Sim Elliott

Jul 25, 20235 min read

East Head, West Sussex. Flowering Plants, especially glassworts, Bryophytes and Lichens 24.07.23

Visit one of the last surviving pieces of natural coastline in West Sussex. East Head is an example of the nationally rare and fragile,...

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Eerie Nature. Parasitic & insectivorous plants. Hesworth & Lavington Commons. West Sussex. 17.07.23

Sim Elliott

Jul 25, 20238 min read

Eerie Nature. Parasitic & insectivorous plants. Hesworth & Lavington Commons. West Sussex. 17.07.23

North West Sussex, just north of the South Downs, has an area of lowland Wealden greensand heathlands (all called commons). These heaths...

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