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12 discoveries with Puschel and Flauschi.

Discover twelve woodland plants. The order is only a rough guide: what you encounter depends on place and season.

Puschel and Flauschi observe a stinging nettle with toothed leaves from a distance.

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Discover stinging nettle

Common nettle has pointed leaves with coarsely toothed edges. Leaves grow in opposite pairs.

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Flauschi points to ivy with glossy leaves and dark berries on a tree trunk while Puschel looks up.

Plant

Discover ivy

Ivy stays green in winter and climbs with small attaching roots. These help it cling to surfaces.

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Flauschi shows Puschel hazelnuts in leafy husks on a shrub with toothed leaves.

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Discover hazel

Hazel leaves are broad with heart-shaped bases. Long hanging flower clusters called catkins often appear before leaves.

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Puschel and Flauschi find a slender, curled young fern frond beside mature ferns in the woods.

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Discovering ferns

Fern leaves are called fronds. In many ferns, young fronds start curled and unfold as they grow.

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Puschel points to white woodruff flowers and star-like leaf whorls while Flauschi looks on with a smile.

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Discover woodruff

Woodruff has leaf-like parts arranged in rings around the stem. Such a ring is called a whorl.

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Puschel and Flauschi look at white wood anemones among fallen leaves in a spring woodland.

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Discovering wood anemones

Wood anemones usually have pale star-like flowers. They use spring woodland light before tree leaves form a dense canopy.

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Flauschi points to white wild garlic flowers while Puschel looks at broad leaves on the woodland floor.

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Discover wild garlic

Wild garlic has broad pointed leaves and clusters of white flowers. Dangerous plants can look similar.

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Puschel points at a dark berry on a low bilberry shrub while Flauschi watches with a smile.

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Discovering bilberry

Bilberry is a small, low-growing shrub. It has small oval leaves and green, angled stems.

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Puschel and Flauschi find wood sorrel with three heart-shaped leaflets and white flowers with fine veins.

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Discovering wood sorrel

Wood sorrel has leaves made of three heart-shaped leaflets. White flowers may have fine pink or purple lines.

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Puschel and Flauschi spot small red wild strawberries, white flowers and three-part leaves.

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Discover wild strawberry

A wild strawberry leaf has three toothed leaflets. White flowers with yellow centres can later form small red fruits.

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Puschel and Flauschi look at white lily-of-the-valley flowers and broad leaves from the path.

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Discover lily of the valley

Usually two broad leaves grow together. White bell-like flowers hang along one side of a stem.

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Puschel bends down to violet woodland flowers with heart-shaped leaves while Flauschi watches.

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Discover woodland violet

Wood violets usually have pale violet flowers. The leaves have a heart-shaped notch at the base, where the stalk joins.

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