biology

Beech bark study Fagus sylvatica showing a knot

Black poplar Populus nigra leaf flower and catkins

Beech Fagus sylvatica tree outline showing tree shape without leaves

Blackberry Rubus fruticosa showing flowers, ripe and unripe fruit, and a leaflet

Beech Fagus sylvatica twig in bud and leaf and beechnuts

Blackthorn Prunus spinosa with a sprig showing spine, leaf and fruit and the other sprig showing blossom

Begonia Begonia pearcei growing in terracotta plant pot

Bell heather Erica cinerea with close up of individual flower

Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus in flower and with black berries

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with yellow flowers face on and in profile

Birds nest orchid Neottia nidus-avis flowering spike

Biting stonecrop Sedum acre sprig with two flowering spikes and a few vegetative ones

Bitter vetch Lathyrus linifolius showing purple flowers and pods both ripe and brown and earlier on, still green. Tendrils and winged stem shown clearly along with paied leaves

Bitter wood vetch Vicia orobus showing the pale mauve flowers and pale green pods and paired leaves

Barley Hordeum vulgare with green and mature ripe seed head

Abscission diagram showing ho w the abscission layer lets the leaf fall off without exposing the plant to pathogens

Barren brome grass Anisantha sterilis with spikelet detail

Bugle Ajuga reptans plant with stolon

Barren strawberry Potentilla sterilis with stolom and small inedible fruit

Alder buckthorn Rhamnus frangula sprig with close up of berry and flower, berries red and purple

Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva ursi in berry showing intricate netwrok on veins on each leaf and rooting nodes

Pollarded Alder Alnusglutinosa tree in leaf

Bee orchid Ophrys apifera entire plant with flowers

Alpine ladies mantle alchemilla alpina with pale underside of leaves ahown and fibrous root area