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Stranddalen, in the south-west of Norway
Knud:
--- Quote from: ian mcdonald on January 14, 2025, 10:53:18 PM ---Great photos, the flora is very similar to the Cairngorms.
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Thank you Ian, I can imagine it is similar.
I have walked a fair bit in Scotland, though many years ago now and not much in the Cairngorms. My walks often aimed to see alpines, and not always to bag Munros, so I have been on Ben Lui and Ben Lawers (both Munros, I realise). It is not only the flora that is similar, the landscape around Stranddalen and a bit north and east is very reminiscent of many places in Scotland, but then it is the Caledonian and it is relatively near the coast.
Knud:
Here are five more, three of them with 'fjell' (mountain) in their Norwegian name, Fjellforglemmegei, Fjellsyre, and Fjellfiol.
The Mountain forget-me-not (Myosotis decumbens) is quite similar to most forget-me-nots, the Mountain sorrel (Oxyria digyna) maybe not so common as the Common butterworth (Pinguicula vulgaris), and the Alpine Yellow-violate (Viola biflora) is just a beauty. The pale violate was quite common from where we parked and right up to Stranddalen, though normally occuring singly, here and there. It ranged in colour from almost blue (V. riviniana ?) to paler violate than the one pictured here (V. palustris ?).
Knud:
And here are five known for their berries rather than their flowers; the Bunchberry (Cornus), the Cloudberry (Rubus), the Blaeberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), the Bog bilberry (V. uliginosum), and the Lingon berry (V. viti-idaea). All are edible, but not all tasty.
The blaeberry and the Bog bilberry can normally be told apart any time of the year by the green twigs on the blaeberry, the Bog bilberry's are brown, as can be seen from the pictures. Both are edible, but the Bog bilberry is virtually tasteless compared to the blaeberry.
Leucogenes:
Absolutely great pictures...Knud!
Not only the individual plant portraits are beautiful... the whole landscape in the background also inspires me.
Here in central Germany it has become almost impossible to provide ideal conditions for the typical representatives of the north. The plants suffer greatly from the surreal temperatures and drought in summer.
Many thanks for showing them.
Knud:
--- Quote from: Leucogenes on January 15, 2025, 11:09:23 AM ---Absolutely great pictures...Knud!
Not only the individual plant portraits are beautiful... the whole landscape in the background also inspires me.
Here in central Germany it has become almost impossible to provide ideal conditions for the typical representatives of the north. The plants suffer greatly from the surreal temperatures and drought in summer.
Many thanks for showing them.
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Thank you, I am glad you enjoy the pictures. And as I replied to Maggi, it was exactly bringing the background landscape better into focus I had hope to achieve with my camera that failed. I just have to go back when summer returns...
Here too it would be difficult to grow many of these plants in our garden, which is at sea level and on the west coast. Though not so much because of the heat as because of the wet. Wet below ground we can deal with through drainage, wet above ground is difficult, and our winters can be very wet. We are lucky we do not have to go far to visit these plants where they live.
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