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Posted: 13 May 2014

Taken: 17 Aug 2012

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Himalayan Balsam - Osney - Oxford - 17.8.2012

Himalayan Balsam - Osney - Oxford - 17.8.2012
This escapee from cultivation is becoming something of a weed in some areas.

Gerda, have particularly liked this photo

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 Polyrus
Polyrus
This is nothing like any Impatiens I have knowingly seen. But then there are about a thousand different varieties and the only two I know are the 'common garden' Busy Lizzies and the majestic New Guinea Impatiens. As for Balsam, the only one I'm familiar with is the excellent "Riga Black Balsam"...and that is a most potent bitter-sweet medicinal drink...at 90 proof!
10 years ago.
Phil Sutters club has replied to Polyrus
I remember 'Friar's Balsam' - sitting with my head under a towel, over a bowl of hot water with FB in it, trying to clear a blocked nose, when I was little.
10 years ago.
 Gerda
Gerda
How lovely! To me they look a bit like snapdragons. I only know the Busy Lizzies that Polyrus mentions.
10 years ago.
Phil Sutters club has replied to Gerda
Rather large snapdragons - up to 3 metres high. They are on government lists of alien invasive species, but they are rather beautiful aliens!
10 years ago.

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