Feedback request: Senecio sylvaticus (31572)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #301660

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Senecio sylvaticus L. ("Heath Groundsel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Senecio sylvaticus L. ("Heath Groundsel")
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	8/8/1901
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Harborne, Pills wood, SP08, 'Pitts Wood'
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by oldnick on 18^th June 2010.

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oldnick wrote

Whether the spelling Pills Wood on the site menu is correct, or the label spelling Pitts Wood, I could not find the site on a modern map.

[mossysal]

Sure it's Pitts Wood. Isn't it depressing to see those vast housing estates around Birmingham where once there were fields and woods? See http://www.bosf.org.uk/directory/images/edgbaston_friends-of-pitts-wood_1.pdf [pdf]. As near as I can work it out it's around
OS Grid reference SP0184

Quite a lot of refs on Google for Pitts Wood/Harborne.

[oldnick]

I utterly and despondently agree; curiously on that note I have just found
http://www.sp.scnhs.org.uk/