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Hypoxylon loweianus
The asexual fruit bodies of this were found.
It was the first time any of us had seen
them. They grow on dead wood and look like
small, reddish-brown pustules with short thick
hairs coming out of them.
MARTIN GREGORY
WILDLIFE GARDENING
Following the death of my father a couple of
years ago, I decided to transform our vegetable
patch into a wildlife garden. After waiting
impatiently for the Purple Sprouting to yield
its final crop I set forth with enthusiasm to
dig the pond, without which no such garden is
reputed to be complete. It was intended to be
9 ft. long by 7 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep, but by
the time I had finished messing about 'with it
the dimensions had shrunk to 8 ft. by 6 ft. by
1 ft. 6 ins. It was also two inches lower at
one end than the other, which has been a
problem ever since and has been a constant
reminder of the old adage about the skills of
the father skipping a generation ..... No
matter, it was a pond. Or rather a pool; and
I set about stocking it with plants, most of
which, it must shamefully be admitted, came
from ponds scattered about the countryside:
Common Water Starwort and Water Cress from
Farmbridge End; Curled Pondweed from
Fryerning; Canadian Pondweed from Chignal