Great reedmace, Hillsborough
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Great reedmace, Hillsborough
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 14 Aug 2008
Great reedmace growing beside the lake in Hillsborough forest. To quote from another source “due to graphic mistake (or possibly even a deliberate error on his part) made by the Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who famously painted "Moses in the Bulrushes" with the child's cradle depicted amongst reedmace instead of amongst clumps of the far less spectacular-looking bulrush, several subsequent generations of children have grown up believing that the reedmace is actually called the bulrush and is a myth that perpetuates to this day....”. This misunderstanding is sometimes evident in Royal Black Preceptory banners. Image shows the plant during winter (January).
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Image Location
Latitude
54.457026
Longitude
-6.080118