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Clematis vitalba in the churchyard in Rye, East Sussex
Among the many surprising relatives of the humble buttercup in the family Ranunculaceae, traveller’s joy (Clematis vitalba) is probably one with few pretensions to grandeur, popping up as it does along hedgerows up and down the country. By now the four petal-like sepals have dropped, leaving an explosion of long, thin styles attached to the developing ovaries. Over the next few weeks, these will develop silky hairs, enabling each ripened seed (technically a dried fruit known as an achene) to take to the air with its own parachute, and giving the climbering vine another of its common names, old man’s beard.
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