Beach Walk Update 22.6.2007 V

I forgot to mention that a very striking feature of the beach walk Sue & I did on Friday Evening was a green ribbon of what appeared to be newly-colonised embryonic dune. We have just looked it up and it wasn't Good King Henry as I speculated at the time but Common Orache (Atriplex patula) which Sue suggested when we got home (curses - Ed.).

There is an strip of shingle to either side of the Orache. As you can see below it is growing directly out of the shingle.

The leaves were triangular to lanceolate with two basal lobes pointing downward (The Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe: Fitter, Fitter & Blamey, Collins 1974).