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Toothwort Lathraea squamaria is a parasitic plant flowering in spring in damp deciduous woodland and hedges. With no green chlorophyll at all, the plant extracts its nutrients from its host, usually hazel, beech or lime, by attaching suckers directly to its roots. The row of scaly bracts resemble teeth hence its common name. Bees and ants are attracted to the flower but it is mostly self-pollinating and dies down in the summer. The plant may persist in the ground around the host plant for many years.

Photograph by John Beatty

About John Beatty

For thirty years, John has ventured across the world returning with stories of his experiences of the wilderness which few have encountered. He has drunk tea with Thangboche’s High Lama in the Kumbu, collected shells from Pacific beaches, run with wilderbeests in the ancient dusts of Serengeti, hiked to hidden springs of Grand Canyon, encountered walrus’, wolves and streams of caribou in the low islands of Aleutian Alaska. His travels are infused with adventure and wonderment, from Galapagos to the Andes, Namibia, Mongolia and the Amazon Basin. Closer to home, John has photographed almost all wild land locations in Britain, from the windswept tors of Cornwall to white strands of the Outer Hebrides.

As a photographer of wilderness it is the drama of landscape, its biodiversity and wild weather that attracts him most. Major expeditions including seven months spent in Antarctica, a winter in Spitzbergen and an historic four hundred mile traverse of the Greenland Icecap, John's assignments have taken him to some of the wildest lands on Earth.

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