I'm open to correction on this, for my knowledge of conifers is weak-to-nonexistant, but I think these are the ovulate (female) flowers of the Norway spruce [Picea abies]. The tree had fallen in a storm, and as is the way of plants was flowering profusely with the approach of death. South Laggan forest, 11/05/98
Sea-pink [Armeria maritima] Beinn Sgritheall, 10/06/08 ~ In its normal form, and an unusual pure white variety which I don't remember finding before in the wild. High on Sgritheall's north-east ridge.
The albino Armeria - Fls dark to pale pink say my books, but of virgin white they are silent. The ground cover is Woolly fringe moss [Racomitrium lanuginosum].
![I'm open to correction on this, for my knowledge of conifers is weak-to-nonexistant, but I think these are the ovulate (female) flowers of the Norway spruce [Picea abies]. The tree had fallen in a storm, and as is the way of plants was flowering profusely with the approach of death.
South Laggan forest, 11/05/98](https://www.streapadair.com/img/spacer.gif)