Herbarium specimen: Alnus glutinosa
| Taxon: | Betulaceae: Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. ("Alder") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Betulaceae: Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. ("Alder") |
| Collected by: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Collection date: | 9/12/1933 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Pensford, ST66, Chew bank above Pensford |
| ex herb: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | buds/immature flowers |
| notes: | rotundifolia. kept in water indoors a month & then put in press, during which time the female spikes had developed, but the male catkins lengthened only slightly HST Jan 6 1934. Nor had the youmg leaf or buds on the other twig developed appreciably. Taken out of press 10 Feb 1934 Less than a week after another twig had been in the glass topped flower case at the museum the male catkins had opened well, & were shedding pollen, they had lengthened greatly probably owing to the warmer and ?purer air of the museum flower case HST |
Inferred details are marked.
Associated records
Other specimen entries from this sheet.| taxon | locality | collectors | date | institution | ||
| + | Alnus glutinosa | GB, VC6 North Somerset, Pensford | Harold Stuart Thompson | 14/3/1936 | BIRM | |
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Documented by nacs12 on 9th June 2010.
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