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Park Wood, Chilham

…racteristic of calcareous soils are present, including the uncommon lady orchid Orchis purpurea. The wood also contains an outstanding assemblage of invertebrates which includes the rare wasp Crossocerus distinguendus and there is also a large breeding bird community. The wood li…

Great Crabbles Wood

…s the dominant species. A number of scarce plants occur, including lady orchid Orchis purpurea and man orchid Orchis anthorpophora. Acidic Blackheath gravels form a ridge in the northern part of the wood; this slopes away gradually to the south east, with neutral Woolwich loams …

Ileden and Oxenden Woods

…s Paris quadrifolia, wood spurge Euphorbia amygdaloides and early purple orchid Orchis mascula. Other orchids present include fly Ophrys insectifera, lesser butterfly Platanthera bifolia and two rarities, the lady orchid Orchis purpurea a species largely confined to Kent and the …

Parkgate Down

…za fuchsii are probably the most numerous. Uncommon species include lady orchid Orchis purpurea and musk orchid Herminium monorchis, both of which flower intermittently. The latter is only found in a few sites in S E Kent and here can sometimes number several hundred flowering sp…

Yockletts Bank

…wood is noted for the many orchids that occur, including the scarce lady orchid Orchis purpurea. The uncommon round leaved wintergreen Pyrola rotundifolia also grows in one of the open grassy clearings. A variety of woodland birds breed. hornbeam is predominant as old coppice on …

Queendown Warren

…ant plants of the woodland floor, but among scarcer species are the lady orchid Orchis purpurea and yellow bird's nest Hypopitys monotropa. Some former grassland has been invaded by scrub in recent years; this scrub is of mixed species, including several, like wayfaring tree and …

Alkham, Lydden and Swingfield Woods

…n the site near Lydden. A number of uncommon plants occur including lady orchid Orchis purpurea in the woods and burnt orchid Neotinea ustulata in the grassland. These woods have been managed by coppicing. Ash and hazel are the common coppiced species with some field maple, hornb…

Wye and Crundale Downs

…icular note are colonies of green hellebore Helleborus viridis, and lady orchid Orchis purpurea which is restricted in Britain to Kent. The woodlands support a rich community of breeding birds such as hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes, lesser spotted woodpecker Dryobates mi…

Halling to Trottiscliffe Escarpment

…osa and several species of orchid including the scarce musk orchid Herminium monorchis and man orchid Orchis anthorpophora. This range of food plants and the warm conditions are ideal for insects and the area is of great entomological importance. It is the only known location in …

Larkey Valley Wood

…ber of orchids; bird's nest Neottia nidus-avis, fly Ophrys insectifera and lady Orchis purpurea. The latter is a scarce species restricted in Britain to Kent and is characteristic of Kentish woods on chalk soils. A variety of woodland birds breed, including tree pipit, nuthatch, …

Wouldham to Detling Escarpment

…maculatum and spurge laurel Daphne laureola. Scarce* plants include lady orchid Orchis purpurea and stinking hellebore Helleborus foetidus. Box Buxus sempervirens, a rare** small tree, is native here at one of a handful of sites in the south east. The storm of October 1987 has a…

Lynsore Bottom

…noted for the presence of several uncommon plants, particularly the lady orchid Orchis purpurea, a species restricted in Britain to Kent. The eastern woodlands, Fryarne Park Wood and Mill Bank, are the most varied. hazel and ash are the most common coppiced species on the chalk s…

Purple Hill

…ecies of plants are also found including several orchids for example man orchid Orchis anthorpophora, fragrant orchid Gymnadenia conopsea and pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis. The upper part of the woodland, on the clay with flints soil, is predominantly hornbeam coppice, …

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