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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostly Vision" data-source="post: 1652218" data-attributes="member: 11550">Dear allNow the record has been published officially, I can put some more details to it.Found on 20th September freshly out, by 1st October the lip had been eaten by a slug and the plant stem was severed.A single plant, 50mm high with a single flower on it.Was in Herefords, but not the 1982 site.Was growing out of dried-up and cracked, bare ground on a slight bank next to a footpath.This is as much detail as has been published.The finder is a very experienced Ghost hunter and had spent many hours this season checking out 12 potential sites, before striking extremely lucky (we're talking Euromillions here) three and a half months in.The photos show a very poor example of the species, presumably a result of the marginal habitat and dry conditions.All the bestSean</blockquote>