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Roseroot (Rhodiola rosea) on the cliffs of Handa
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Sutherland - Handa island SWT Reserve
Roseroot (Rhodiola rosea) on the cliffs of Handa. Native succulent in the Stonecrop family, found in rocky mountainous areas. It has waxy leaves to reduce evaporation. Flowers in July and August, but here on Handa at a lower altitude and by the sea it was flowering in late June.
20 June 2012
Walking on Handa
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Sutherland - Handa island SWT Reserve
Walking on a boardwalk on Handa, showing a dry stream bed covered in dried out sphagnum moss. The north-west of Scotland experienced a drought in spring and early summer of 2012.
20 June 2012
Walking on Handa
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Sutherland - Handa island SWT Reserve
Walking on a boardwalk on Handa. The boardwalk replaces an earlier path which had been subject to erosion from dozens of visitors every day. Geos (parallel cliff-sided inlets) to the right and the mainland of Sutherland behind.
