Cornish Curiousity

Maggies Garden Forum: What's This?: Cornish Curiousity
By Maggie on Thursday, June 01, 2000 - 9:06 pm: Edit Post

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Found growing wild in cool, shaded moist earth.


By Terry on Friday, June 02, 2000 - 2:42 am: Edit Post

It looks like an almost dead Navelwort (Umbilicus rupestris), but they are usually somewhat greener than in your pic Maggie. My book says that it flowers June/July.


By Gail on Friday, June 02, 2000 - 8:06 am: Edit Post

Maggie, getting seed? Enough for friends?


By Maggie on Wednesday, June 07, 2000 - 11:51 am: Edit Post

I looked up 'navelwort' in one ref book Terry, and it gave me Omphalodes, the little blue bloomers, including the one confusingly known as 'forget-me-nots', like the Brunnera. Just love those common names!! Then I looked up Umbilicus without finding anything in same. Should dig deeper.
Anyway, I spotted this pinkie thing in several sites along the Cornwall coast in late May, early June - always pink. It was of a tissue texture that hinted of a fungi rather than not. So if it is, sorry Gail, no chance of seed anyway ;-).


By David B on Thursday, June 08, 2000 - 1:07 am: Edit Post

Navelwort isn't it that stuff that is found in your NAVEL or in your pockets of your blue jeans??? It's usually blue??


By Maggie on Thursday, June 08, 2000 - 12:11 pm: Edit Post

No, I think that's Bellifluftis tomintosa, indigenous to deep pockets and innies in the New Jeans region.


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