Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Cultivation => Composts => Topic started by: JohnnyD on April 14, 2024, 02:18:34 PM
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Can anyone identify the attached pic please? JohnnyD
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It seems it is Henia vesuviana - so I am not much wiser ::) JohnnyD
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Nor I!! Looks vaguely familiar - but searching its name suggests it is a mainland European species .... so that's another puzzle!
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I have read it is in the area of Greater London and in coastal areas fairly frequent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henia_vesuviana
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Frodsham is a fair distance from either London or the sea. Unless of course it swam up the Mersey and across Frodsham marshes.
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Or was introduced with compost?
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Or was introduced with compost?
Australian flatworm Australoplana sanguinea came to my garden in potted plant(s) from a nursery, possibly in imported stock.
They established for a decade or so, but now seem to have died out again fortunately.
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Or was introduced with compost?
Yes, much more likely to have come into the garden via a plant pot. It's how we got what we called the New Zealand Flatworm and various other pests, animal and plant based :-\ :'( We no longer have the flatworm, thankfully.