pumpkinstrokemarrow

Spotted by BH outside the south front of Hampton Court Palace, a plant first known to us as the title of a rather decent murder mystery (which turned out not to be a murder) from Australia (in our case pre-owned by Surrey Libraries), where lantana seems to grow more or less wild on embankments and suchlike, a rather florid version of our own bramble or dog rose.

We must have come across them at the Palace before because BH knew straight away what they were, from maybe 50 yards. It took me, however, a few seconds to bring the relevant data back online.

I plead in mitigation that this specimen is rather small and has a short trunk, not visible in this picture, while the plants in the film were scrubby rather than trunky.