Oxlip

Introduction

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Oxlip

Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 9 Apr 2011

This is an Oxlip flower, found in the U.K only in the “East Anglian Triangle” where Essex Cambridgeshire and Suffolk meet. Not only is it confined to this area it is generally only found in and around ancient woodland. There is something about the nature of the chalky boulder clay and woodland habitat that suppress the other native primulas (primrose & cowslip) and allows the Oxlip to grow. It is uncanny to follow a footpath out of an oxlip wood and after 50 yards or so cowslips are profuse and oxlips absent.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.030456
Longitude
0.349855