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Tootworth: Hathraea squamaria.

Its name derives from the ivory coloured bracts which look like teeth. Instead of having leaves to produce its food it is a parasite (obtain it nutrients from its host) causing death of an unhealthy hazel at whose base it grows. However, here in Doon, we will overlook this 'indignity' as the Recorder for The Botanical Society of the British Isles confers it as a first for County Mayo.

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