Ok, I used a folklore tome and this was the message I got:
[5:33]You ready a î‚»tome of botanical folklore - Dravania.
[5:33]A page on Dravanian botany folklore has been added to [someone elses namehere]'s gathering log.
Looking around on other sites, this seems to be only a visual / text bug and I have actually unlocked the node, but it really needs fixing as I thought I'd just lost over a day of farming in a second.