1. Periwinkle known as fairy paintbrush or gwean in Cornwall …
Greater bindweed [Calystegia spp.], the petals stripped off left ‘fairy paintbrushes’. Also periwinkle [Minehead, Somerset, November 1993].
Images: main, lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor), Hartland, north Devon, March 2014; insets, greater periwinkle (Vinca major) Balham, London Borough of Wandsworth; February 2014; and greater periwinkle flower with petals removed, February 2014.
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