Feedback request: Campanula latifolia (28800)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #354674

Taxon:	Campanula latifolia L. ("Giant Bellflower")
Filed in taxon folder:	Campanula latifolia L. ("Giant Bellflower")
Collection date:	21/6/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Coombe Wood, TQ3464, [? see message board]
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by hewitt.j.h@bt following initial work by oldnick on 19^th January 2013.

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date	user	change
26/03/2013	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Coombe Wood
26/03/2013	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17 Coombe Wood, [? see message board] TQ3464 (place)

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oldnick wrote

Did we locate Coombe Wood? in the familiar script again and all same date. I see that as well as the numerous Coombe woods given on Streetmap, there's one in Surrey - would C latifolia grow there though? http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/284401/

[Roger Horton]

I can see six Coombe Woods in Streetmap! Plus a Coombe Wood Farm in Devon that loses an O on the way from OS 50,000 to 25,000. Then, as you say, there's Coombe Wood at OS TQ346642 which appears to be on the side of the chalk hills in the area west of Croydon along Coombe Road/Lane.
I don't think we can resolve this naming problem yet!

[Chris Liffen]

For interest
Coombe Wood was a 'favourite' for outings of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society over the years e.g.


The site was part of the large Coombe estate, including woods and commonland, privately owned until the mid C20th.

[oldnick]

This 'extremely skilful' rockery would perhaps be the source of such varied plants, including this unusual occurrence

[Roger Horton]

The 'skilful imitation of natural rockwork' seems to have been in Pulhamite. See The Story of Pulhamite Rockwork, and Croydon Council Coombe Wood leaflet [pdf]. Perhaps all specimens from this artificial environment should be considered 'cultivated'.