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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Yann on April 12, 2019, 08:17:11 PM
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Back from the island, here're some of the plants seen.
The winter was rainy, this spring is very wet and so many orchids are at their best.
The landscape
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Ophrys rhodia
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Ophrys lucis
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Ophrys ferrum-equinum
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Ophrys regis-fernandii
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Ophrys mammosa
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Ophrys reinholdii
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Ophrys speculum
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Ophrys calypsus
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Ophrys omegaifera
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Anacamptis papilionacea ssp heroica
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Ophrys speculum x regis-fernandii
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Orchis provincialis
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Orchis italica
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Ophrys dodekanensis
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Such jewels 8)
Thanks for sharing them Yann.
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I think you gonna have an orchids overdose ;D
Orchis anatolica
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Serapias bergonii
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Serapias orientalis subsp carica
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Neotinea maculata
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I think it's time to show other plants...but i still have several orchids to post ::)
In the heart of the island a range of low mountains host many rare plants.
Profitis Ilias is the most famous area where grow Paeonia rhodia, the plants are easy to reach.
But i wanted to repay a visit to a spot in discovered by chance 40km from there, in a deep gorge very difficult to access.
The effort was rewarded, the spot is intact as i discovered it in 2001.
These plants are found only 20m from the top of the gorge, they receive the sun at the end of the afternoon
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deeper it's dark and the plants are really beautiful
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on the ascent climb i found few Iris unguicularis
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more tomorrow...
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Amazing Yann. Love the peony especially but the orchids are such treasures.
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more tomorrow...
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Gerd
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Wonderful!
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Waiting for them Yann, thanks for posting.
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Nice images of some attractive orchids Yann!
Paeonia rhodia is something special.
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Absolutely world class... Yann. I think the plants were just waiting for you. 😊
I am also looking forward to more pictures.
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April is also the month of bulbs, here're few of them
Bellevalia trifoliata, it can grows in wet clay or in dry hills. It's a very early species and most of them were faded.
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Muscari weissii
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Muscari comosum
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Moraea sisyrinchium
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Allium subhirsutum
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Cyclamen rhodium
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Paeonia rhodia, I am stunned. And the picture of Dracunculus vulgaris is just amazing! You have been in plant paradise, thank you for sharing the pictures.
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yes it's one of the plants paradise in Europe. More to come later..i'm in the fields.
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Here's a very rare and critically endangered plant : Centaurea lactuciflora
One site is accessible along the road, all the others spots are not easy to reach, the one i visited has a 60% hill (1 foot ahead, 2 backward).
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After 20mn of ascent the graal is visible.
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Still 5mn to access the foot hill
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a few more of this endemic
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on the lower parts of the rocks one can fin several other unusual plants
Centranthus calcitrapae
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Arabis purpurea
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Ranunculus creticus
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Still in the descent i also found Gagea peduncularis
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Arabis verna
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Knautia dipsacifolia
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the scattered Saxifraga hederacea, flowers are 3-4mm
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and the rare Symphytum circinale
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Absolutely world class... Yann. I think the plants were just waiting for you. 😊
I am also looking forward to more pictures.
thank you Thomas, to be at the right time is always a poker party. This year the late season in the Balkans offer us a lot of blossoms.
My best season for the last 20 years while in my country the drought is disastrous.
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What a richesse of plants Yann! Beautiful.
Orchid overdose is good in early spring. Stunning peony, growing in the shade all by himself :)
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near Afandou where i stayed the coast is a marvelous area
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Matthiola longipetala ssp pumilio
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Paronychia argentea
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Asphodelus aestivus
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Ajuga chamaepitys subsp chia
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Campanula rhodensis (hagielia wasn't blooming)
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Filago eriocephala
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Onobrychis caput-galli
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Tuberaria guttata
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Salvia viridis
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now a bit more in the land
Lavendula stoechas
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Coronilla rostrata
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Linum bienne
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Parentucellia latifolia
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Parentucellia viscosa
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Trifolium resupinatum just under the car ;D
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Trifolium stellatum
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Erodium malacoides
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Echium plantagineum
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Phelipanche mutelii var. nana
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Vicia hybrida
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Dianthus elegans
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Freesia refracta
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Filago pygmaea
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Gagea graeca
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Plantago afra
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Lithodora hispidula ssp. hispidula
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Hello Yann ,
congratulation to your founds - great !
Did you not found Frittilaria rhodia ?
Hans
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Yes Hans but no ones were in bloom, it's a very late season.
At lake Gadoura they were just poping up the soil. Instead i found torrent of mud!
I've postpone my northern Greece travel to end of may most of the higher plants are still under snow.
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Hi Yann ,
I found it more in the north on Easter 2001
Hans
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Many sites are now under concrete, i knew a good zone near Faliráki but now it's a huge resort with plastic trees in front of the gate....
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Amazing! I have done so many trips to Rhodes in past years and I’m sure I will do even more in upcoming ones. Greece provides a travel experience that mixes the best of both worlds - relaxation and adventure. This is an ideal and unique travel experience for me, making it my dream vacation spot. We also used Rhodes Airport Transfer (https://aktis.taxi/Greece/Rhodes+Island+Airport+Diagoras+RHO) in our trip and they provided wonderful service and were cheaper than one alternative I checked.
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Likewise... just came across this thread, beautiful photos.
You can overdose on orchids? ;D
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Amazing! I have done so many trips to Rhodes in past years and I’m sure I will do even more in upcoming ones. Greece provides a travel experience that mixes the best of both worlds - relaxation and adventure. This is an ideal and unique travel experience for me, making it my dream vacation spot. We also used Rhodes Airport Transfer (https://aktis.taxi/Greece/Rhodes+Island+Airport+Diagoras+RHO) in our trip and they provided wonderful service and were cheaper than one alternative I checked.
Indeed, after visiting for job/leisures more than 42 countries i never found such feeling in any other country.
I never "used" such services company but always rent a car.
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Likewise... just came across this thread, beautiful photos.
You can overdose on orchids? ;D
Well as i'm still alive i think the dose isn't enough each year :)
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Not on Rhodes, but if someone likes the idea of a Greek holiday, there is a wonderful place to stay in Stoúpa, Lakonia, Greece, I can suggest here: http://www.fryle.se (http://www.fryle.se) where you can learn about the guest apartment of Leif and Christina Fryle - a fine couple who are great friends of SRGC! The apartment is near the village of Agios Nikolaos
http://fryle.se/fryle-house/ (http://fryle.se/fryle-house/)
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