Cors Fochno or Borth Bog on the western edge of mid-Wales, holds a recently discovered population of Irish Lady’s Tresses Spiranthes romanzoffiana; it is a pretty orchid with small white flowers in three spiral rows. Spiranthes romanzoffiana occurs in sites with wet, acidic peaty soils, in western Britain and Ireland but also much more commonly…
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Cors Fochno
Cord Fochno, is a raised mire; a great lens of peat next to the Dyfi estuary a few miles to the north of Aberystwyth. At its heart, there is no solid ground, just layers of compressed Sphagnum mosses laid down on a freshwater wetland since the end of the last Ice Age. In the past,…