One of the benefits of being in the Wild Flower Society is that Eileen and I vist sites annually to record the more rare plants. On Sunday 4th July we decided to spend the morning at the popular RSPB reserve at Minsmere on the Suffolk coast. Our main reason was to check on the small but troublesome wool alien Acaena novae –zelandia Piri Piri Bur.
It is a small indistinct plant that has these hooks called burs that rely on passing animals to re seed. The staff at the reserve are trying to get rid of it and ask visitors not to brush against the flowers and spread it. I think it should be left alone and just managed so that visiting botanists can at least add it to their diary.
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