This is just a few lines to basically say, I've decided to cross over back to the other side of the river again. I haven't been down that way in ages, and every time I go there there seems to be less charity shops and more nutters out.
The way I go is via Gants Hill tube. You can exit and walk through the park to end up on Ilford high street. Occasionally you'll see a rat in the park, but mostly its all about the ducks and geese and of course the squirrels.
This time they seemed to have their squirrel spawner set up to 11 as there was an absolute load of them scurrying around. Setting still for a moment gets you at least three come up to see if you have any food for them and kinda felt bad not having any monkey nuts for them to hand out. By my counting I must have seen 30 or so of them just walking through. After that Ilford wasn't all that.
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New species to be split from Antimima.
I'm part of a Facebook group dedicated to the more popular Mesembryanthemaceae such as Lithops and Conophytum. These get most of the photos, but sometimes we have posted things from the stranger, more shrubbier mesembs.
Antimima was part of Ruschia a supergroup of shrubby pink flowering bushes native to South Africa, they basically made up a group in the group of more mat-forming, or dome shaped colonies. A guy posts a photo of a white flowered plant in flower and says its from MSG (Mesemb Study Group) seed, does anyone know what it is:
The reply is from Peter Van Wyk.
It is Antimima pilosula. I had the species DNA sequenced in 2020 by Dr Klak. The strange morphology does not fit with Antimima and so did the DNA also showed, it falls in a clade with 5 other species from three other genera in the eastern Richtersveld and Boesmanland and will be placed rightfully into a new genus in the future.
If I get any update on what the outcome of this research or what this new taxon will be called, I will of course update this post.
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