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Cotton in the wind.

  • 08-07-2016 9:23am
    #1
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭


    What's that cottony stuff blowing around lately? Apparently I haven't noticed before because I'm a 'townie'.
    Has someone got an auld cotton plantation on the go?


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  • #2
    Lady is a tramp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Lady is a tramp


    Dandelion fluff maybe?


  • #3
    Jodotman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Jodotman


    The interior of my car was covered in the stuff when driving around with the windows down.
    It's off some tree, don't know the model of the tree though.


  • #4
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Jodotman wrote: »
    The interior of my car was covered in the stuff when driving around with the windows down.
    It's off some tree, don't know the model of the tree though.

    Nissan Leaf is it?


  • #5
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    It's bog cotton season, so it could be that. I pass through acres of it every day, it's lovely. Or dandelion seeds.


  • #6
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,205 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its not dandelion or thistle, and unlikely to be bog cotton in that quantity. It could be from poplar trees.


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  • #7
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    looksee wrote: »
    Its not dandelion or thistle, and unlikely to be bog cotton in that quantity. It could be from poplar trees.

    There's loads of the stuff. You can see it blowing through the air the last 2 weeks. The warehouse floor in here is full of it.


  • #8
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Looks like catkin fluff, from willow/hazel trees.


  • #9
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Those are the eggs of the venomous Brazilian parachuting spider.

    Best burn your car down


  • #10
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Those are the eggs of the venomous Brazilian parachuting spider.

    Best burn your car down

    It's in the warehouse apparently. Park the car in the warehouse and then burn the warehouse down?


  • #11
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Elderflower. Monty Don made a lovely cordial with it recently on tv.




    OP please check its elderflower before you try to drink it!


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  • #12
    Story Bud?
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    I was driving through it with the roof off the other day, was lovely.

    Would have said willow but I honestly don't know.


  • #13
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Story Bud? wrote: »
    I was driving through it with the roof off the other day, was lovely.

    Would have said willow but I honestly don't know.

    Oh look at mister la di dah "no roof ".


  • #14
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    It comes from female Poplar trees.


  • #15
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    Whatever you do, don't touch that fluffy stuff!!


  • #16
    Story Bud?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Oh look at mister la di dah "no roof ".

    I can't afford a roof :(


  • #17
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Satriale wrote: »
    Whatever you do, don't touch that fluffy stuff!!

    :eek:


  • #18
    racso1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    I moved house during winter and never in life experienced this stuff. Last couple of weeks have been leaving windows and doors open and it is feckin everywhere all of a sudden


  • #19
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,618 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Pixie cum.


  • #20
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    kneemos wrote: »
    Pixie cum.

    Fairy liquid?


  • #21
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,618 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Fairy liquid?


    Angels delight.


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  • #22
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    Looks like this stuff. A type of thistle I think.


  • #23
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    gramar wrote: »
    It comes from female Poplar trees.
    +1

    Not your ornery onager



  • #24
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It looks like seed from a poplar. But I'd need to see it more closely to be certain.


  • #25
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Rylie Dazzling Xerox wrote: »
    It looks like seed from a poplar. But I'd need to see it more closely to be certain.

    That's about as good as I can get it.


  • #26
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,429 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    pablo128 wrote: »
    That's about as good as I can get it.

    Jaysus, if it turns into coins, gather up as much o' the shtuff as you can!


  • #27
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I think I have this sussed. I was showing my mate the pics this evening, and asked him had he seen it. He said it looked like the stuff on top of reeds in the canal. The job is very close to the canal alright. I'd say that's the one.


  • #28
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    If you plant them, you'll get lovely t-shirts in about 3 months.


  • #29
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    pablo128 wrote: »
    I think I have this sussed. I was showing my mate the pics this evening, and asked him had he seen it. He said it looked like the stuff on top of reeds in the canal. The job is very close to the canal alright. I'd say that's the one.

    Any poplars nearby? Gravity causes stuff to fall down. Reeds grow in water so their seeds presumably fall into water.

    I am wary of poplars, because they grow big and tall and when old rot at the junction of boughs and trunk. The huge, healthy-looking boughs can shear off at any time - in summer or winter, leafy or bare, windy or not. I have seen huge holes in the ground made by these falling boughs - once ten minutes after I had walked under the tree, and a few other times I have seen the same result the next day.

    So, my 2c is still on poplar seed.

    Not your ornery onager



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