Pieris japonica (Thumb.) D. Don - Lily-of-the-valley Bush


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Distribution:
Hightown (SD2904, DP Earl & J Earl, 2010); Otterspool Park (SJ3785, DP Earl & J Earl, 2010); Birkacre Country Park (SD5714, Wild Flower Society, 2011); Astley Green (SJ7099, DP Earl, J Earl & P Bowdler, 2011); Blackrod (SD6111, DP Earl, 2012).

Habitat:
Garden outcast on a sand-dune bank and a relict of cultivation in old shrubberies and abandoned gardens.

Comments:
Neophyte, native to Japan. The plant at Hightown is clearly a garden outcast which is surviving on the edge of the dune system.

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