19/07/2025
The sunshine is back and we’ve encountered some rather beautiful flowers on the recent mountain walks.
The pink flower is Hairy stonecrop, so called as its reddish coloured leaves are covered in tiny hairs.
The solitary white flower, Arctic sandwort favours rocky knolls, fine scree and mountain ridges. This plant seems to be in dramatic decline so it was a special day to encounter this for the first time.
The cluster of white flowers, Northern Rock-cress, was another rare find. But even rarer is the moth that feeds on it, Plutella haasi. It took over 2 hours of searching to find this tiny moth. A very special day for Mull Magic.