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Hi, the forum is killed by FB and now I have a message that this old-coded forum will not be supported anymore unless i convert it to new-code. Well while I was in the forum to get some Nostalgia I went browsing some posts.

This should be Penisetum setaceum!

Ooooppss!!! u r right

Second photo looks like ripe fruit of Tripodium tetraphyllum - was it May/June? Ideally state location and date of photos.

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I assumed that hatab referred to humps (tipo l-hotba tal-gemel), but just my guess.

Thanks for your help guys

There is a tiny chance that your Daucus could be D. rupestris or D. gingidium, distinguished from the leaves and closed fruit, but since D. carota is the most common except at the coast/lithoral/rupestral areas, it is likely that your wild carrot is D. carota.

If the involucral bracts are 4mm long and 2 mm wide with a transparent margin not more than half a mm, it is R. picroides while if the bracts are more than 4mm and 2mm respectivelyand the margin up about 1 mm membranous, than its R. intermedia. From the little I see in the 3rd pic, I think its R. pi...

Dear all, sorry for my silence. Very interesting topic, thanks for your time. For me nothing beats the aromatic scent of Chiliadenus bocconei, the Maltese Fleabane!

Some signs but not as much as expected. Prospero autumnalis and Muscari parviflora are always punctual, despite rain or not. There should be a big shot this weekend, but we see.... Did you notice that the weather has shifted by a month: Last Oct, Nov and most december remained warm and almost withou...

Hi, i came across these two plants which I couldn't place. They are still in bud and a monocot (hence leaves not that significant) but I think I have not seen this before. After brainstorming a number of monocots, I've left with Ornithogalum narbonense, but it is not convincing me that much. I 'don'...

Yes that right.

Having one leaf, not typically morus (deeply lobed and pointed) and in a medivial city, this tree was a bit inquisitive. I know morus leaves vary a lot like figs, but usually are less lobed as shown in the links provided.


OK mystery vanished!

Thanks alot RB, for 'everyhting'

I agree with you in every corner. The environment laws are too much suffocating, imply excessive beurocratic practices and stupid in some cases. They work against the environmentalists themselves because they tend not to break laws, while the developer and those who do not give a shi+ to the environ...

Hi, I just want to thank Dave Messanger for showing me a remnant area of how Qawra should have looked before being developed. It can be considered as a niche ecological sample of what was present in this area, but of course much disturbed by anthropogenic stresses around. The area was a hotspot of w...

I haven't attempted any determination and taking the lazy road and posting here:

tree: one leaf left!

fern: just one good frond present in a well and unreachable.

By now you should have figured out that it is Laetiporus sulphureus. It's quite rare but one of the few perennial and attractive mushrooms I know. It is sought by mushroom hunters so I would not specify more on the locations, else that I also know one from Gozo on Eucalyptus trunk.

These are what are called polypores. It' one of the main branches of funghi (have their own morphology/characters) but I never studied them yet. They are often found attached to (dead) logs.

I am working on the determination of this specimen. I find it so cute that I wanted to share here. Probably I could tell you the name in the next 3-4 days unless it is sime scherzo di natura

We should go and check both the tree and the fern. Actually i know of a large specimen Crytomium sp. growing in almost full sunshine on its own.

P.s. in the well there was one of those quite rare Crytomium ferms but I had no time to check which speceis, apart that it was completely out of reach.

It could have been a Morus, but I am not 100% convinced. Possibly the few leaves remaining (from last year then?) lost their original morus-shape and gave me a wrong impression. On the other hand pruning badly a morus in a squara in Mdina makes sense because the fruit woul make a mess on the ground,...

Hi, I am touring some relatives of my wife and happened to be at Mesquite Square, Mdina. Just behind the well, there was a tree (badly pruned!) consisting of two semi intertwined boughs and at this time of the year a couple of leaves. I could not examine properly in detail or even take a photo but t...

If you give a quick look at the Oxalis section of the website you would have the answer immediately.

More interesting would be the finding of Oxalis fontana, same habitat as O. corniculata but much rare. Another beautiful Oxalis is O. debilis with purple flowers and not invasive in our islands as their Cape sister, a garden escape in towns and old rural paths, but now it disappeared from such sites...

The law includes "possession" of protected species.

Thanks for reporting back. I assume you did your HW well because Aizoaceae tends to be tricky to identigy sometimes, but I think you are right.

Many Thanks BIRI

Mr. Ian brodie have visited Malta for over 2 weeks and botanised our islands mostly for Orchids. He wrote a diary and recorded the species he encountered and was happy to share the infor on the forum. I thought of posting it in this section for the moment. Many thanks to Ian for sharing these after ...

Wild Lobularia maritima can be like that and I even seen ones with pink-lilac flowers at the whereabouts of Ramla cliffs. I too was a bit puzzled, but then I convinved myself that they are all the same.

I generally agree with my colleagues, but next time post also the image of the leaves to be 100% sure. There are some varieties of other stone fruit trees which can have that colour. The leaves of peaches is quite unique. Nevertheless, I vote for Prunus persica for your photo