Perish the thought that Dr M would ever talk rubbish, but recently a survey in the Dagenham area lead to this close encounter of a post-industrial kind, replete with the results of endless fly-tipping, accompanied by a diversity of ruderal plants which you commonly find colonising such places, as well as one or two less common!
Below, Dr M shares images of twenty of the plants growing here, Click on the images and then click again for enlarged images.
See how many you can identify and come back soon, Dr M will be talking more rubbish and there might even be some answers!
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- 1 (tree) 2 (waterside plant)
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- 3
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- 4 (shrub)
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- 17 (growing through tarmac!)
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- 20 (shrub)
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- Fly tipping
Dr M says: Check out the little video below, an attempt to capture some of the bizarre magic of such post industrial man and naturescapes!
April 14, 2016
