The Secrets of Plant Galls - Dr Chris Leach - Knighton Wild
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The Lounge, Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Knighton, Leicester LE2 3WG
Join Dr Chris Leach, Secretary of the British Plant Gall Society, for a 50 year long gall ramble through Knighton Park, The Washbrook Reserve, Brocks Hill Country Park and the hedgerows and woods of Leicestershire, revealing dramatic changes in species profiles, co-existence of variants, false assumptions, chromatographic separation of galls from their hosts, and some personal heresies.
Did you know, for example that galls can be used to measure the distance from Leicester to Hungary, that cats find robin's pincushion galls attractive or that some galls hop?
All this in a single evening.