Simon Cole
Member
Greetings everyone,
I just wanted to share with you some weird stuff happening in the bottom of my garden.
I have a Trachycarpus fortunei palm that decided to flower this year. It's about 20 years old and this is the first time that it's flowered.
Surrounding it there is a circle of chlorotic-tipped plants. They include brambles, bindweed, nettles, and cleavers.
You might already know that allelopathy is when a plant produces biochemicals to inhibit or influence the growth of another plant. It was discovered in 1937 by Hans Molisch, and Diana Walstad made special mention of it in her book: Ecology of the Planted Aquarium. It is relevant to planted aquariums because it probably affects both <plant growth> and <the technological development of algaecides>. Anyway, I was interested to find out that "pollen allelopathy" has been <known since the 1980s>. Pollen allelopathy is possibly not that common in UK-endemic plant communities, but look at how the other plants have reacted to this non-native palm in the photograph below!
(it's a lot more visible when you get up close; - I know, it's almost unbelievable)
I just wanted to share with you some weird stuff happening in the bottom of my garden.
I have a Trachycarpus fortunei palm that decided to flower this year. It's about 20 years old and this is the first time that it's flowered.
Surrounding it there is a circle of chlorotic-tipped plants. They include brambles, bindweed, nettles, and cleavers.
You might already know that allelopathy is when a plant produces biochemicals to inhibit or influence the growth of another plant. It was discovered in 1937 by Hans Molisch, and Diana Walstad made special mention of it in her book: Ecology of the Planted Aquarium. It is relevant to planted aquariums because it probably affects both <plant growth> and <the technological development of algaecides>. Anyway, I was interested to find out that "pollen allelopathy" has been <known since the 1980s>. Pollen allelopathy is possibly not that common in UK-endemic plant communities, but look at how the other plants have reacted to this non-native palm in the photograph below!
(it's a lot more visible when you get up close; - I know, it's almost unbelievable)