Peter Lovett's ramblings
White-legged Damselfly, Buchan country park, West Sussex, 23 July 2025
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Toothwort in the Long Plantation, Kingswood, Surrey on 22rd March 2014
Toothwort is a parasitic plant -- on hazel in this location. It has no leaves or chlorophyll.
You only see it when flowers. The rest of the year its fleshy shoots are below ground feeding on the hazel roots.
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