Hi Cotty, here's some: http://infoweb.magi.com/~ehaber/factpurp.html http://www.invasiveplants.net/plants/purpleloosestrife.htm
I only live 5 minutes walk from the Thames too - we must be neighbours! --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 10:52:23 PM, you wrote: >>I've found an invasive number of websites about this stuff and >>apparently it's quite common on the freshwater stretches of the >>Thames here in London (I live in Greenwich where it's estuarine >>salt marsh). I'm not a botanist and I've never noticed the stuff, >>but I may be able to have a look for some this weekend. I know I >>could probably find some in Kew Gardens, but that's hardly growing >>wild! I can't make any guarantees, but I'll take a look. > That's a good lead - I'm a five minute walk from the Thames, and although > I wouldn't dare drink the stuff, it's alledgedly freshwater up these here > stretches. It's going to be hot and dry this weekend - I'll make it a > little project. Now what in Hades does this thing look like? > Cotty > _______________________________________________________ > Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Check out the UK Macintosh ads > http://www.macads.co.uk > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
