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Re: pollen color
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Trevor Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +1000
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> The pollen in my pollen traps started to change from yellow/orange to a
> brown/dark brown pellets.
> The only visible new blooms around are chestnut tree (Castanea sp.) and
> pink/red clover (Trifolium pratense).

Here what we call Dutch white clover (Trifolium repens) gives a brown/dark 
brown coloured pollen.  Maybe your variety of clover gives the same coloured 
pollen.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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