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Plants & Trees

If I had a Time-Turner and an infinite supply of memory potion, I'd go back in time and tell myself to study botany at university. But lack of both won't stop me from forever marvelling at the beauty of the plant kingdom.

Bog pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius) with leaves submerged in a stream near Rowbarrow pond in the New Forest, with ripples on the surface of the water. Rowan saplings blanket the ground in Crofton woods. Trees in heavy fog on the Grouse Grind trail up Grouse Mountain, near North Vancouver. A beech forest in Autumn, near the shore of Loch Ard in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. A Mahonia starts changing to its Autumn colours in Clyne Gardens, Swansea. An ancient, lichen-encrusted piece of wood, once a majestic tree, forms a natural piece of art. Moss on the bark of an old oak tree Red sorrel (rumex acetosella) in long grass is blown by strong wind near Devil's Dyke, Sussex. Leaves of a grey tree pincushion (Leucospermum conocarpodendron) in Kew Gardens, showing the fine silvery hairs which give the leaves their grey appearance. Sea thrift and lichen on coastal rocks on the Isle of Arran. A woodland scene showing a Dryopteris Affinis fern with striking croziers by East Kyd Brook in Crofton Woods, with Crofton Heath beyond. A thick-trunked oak tree in Crofton woods, leafless and covered in ivy and moss in winter. Two birch trees stand among densely packed, red-brown bracken in Autumn in a woodland, with the sun close to the horizon. A small-leaved lime tree with the last of its fruits in winter, with a misty woodland background. Dasylirion leiophyllum (green sotol) in the University of California Botanical Garden. A cluster of water lilies with flowers in the Monet Pool at Denver Botanic Gardens. An abstract image of heather with purple flowers and a birch branch on Chobham common. The camera was rotated during the exposure A leafless canopy and blue sky in Shoreham Wood, Kent.