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FrazerHenderson
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Some Socotran plants
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Spending a dreich day clearing out files from the computer and came across these photographs from previous trips to Socotra (island to east of Somalia and south of Yemen)
Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum - habitat
Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum
Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum
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Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.
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Five more
Aloe jawiyon (poss.)
Aloe perryi - habitat
Aloe perryi Socotra
Caralluma socotrana - flowers
Caralluma socotrana
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Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.
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and another five including an arboreal Cucumber.
Carulluma socotrana - detail
Cissus hamaderohensis
Cissus subaphylla
Dendrosicyos socotrana
Dendrosicyus socotrana (Cucurbitaceae)
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May 08, 2021, 12:52:30 PM »
and yet another five
Dorstenia gigas - karst
Dorstenia gigas and Dracaena cinnabari
Dracaena cinnabari - in flower
Dracaena cinnabari
Dracaena cinnabari - woodland
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Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.
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and a final four
Euphorbia arbuscula
Euphorbia spiralis
Euphorbia spiralis with Kalanchoe farinacea - Homhil Socotra
Exacum caeruleum (endemic)
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Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.
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May 08, 2021, 01:38:40 PM »
Great to see more of the extraordinary flora of Socotra - thanks, Frazer!
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Attached is a link attached to a short illustrated article that I wrote for Cactus and Succulent Review (June 2022) about Socotra's flora -
https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/assets/downloads/2022/csr-june-2022.pdf
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Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.
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Very many thanks Frazer.
Some fabulous pic's of some fabulous plants.
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Fascinating article, Frazer - many thanks for sharing. I also enjoyed the piece on Tillandsia - I used to grow a lot of these!
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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Here's an article
on conservation of the Socotran dragon tree,
Dracaena cinnabari
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