Recent trip to Bhutan

[ian mcenery]

Hi Anthony as I said on my post it is the Bhutanese national flower and they told me that a single flower per stem is the norm. Mine are as yours multi flowered so ether we or they have the wrong thing. The one they grow is very beautiful and very blue unlike the violet and muddy strains most of us have. I think this area in biennial meconopsis is pretty confused anyway would be interesting if there is anyone out there who can shed some light on this one

[Lesley Cox]

I certainly can't shed any light in a botanical way but I wonder if their mecs are single flowered simply because they are in the wild and under harder conditions. Mine have up to 3 stems per plant with multiple buds and after flowering and seeding - which they do prolifically - the whole plant dies. My foliage looks softer than the one in the pic and floppier somehow. It really does look rather like a different species from mine.

[ian mcenery]

Need an id on the rhodo? please. Very dwarf growing on a rock


Also a primula which was only about 3" high like a mini denticulata

[Maggi Young]

Not sure about what that enchanting little primula might be... what a cracker! I reckon the rhodo is a R. nivale of some sort.

[Lesley Cox]

Ian, do you have a pic of the Primula which shows the foliage clearly? Could at least tell which group then.

[ian mcenery]

Sorry Maggi and Lesley I have been away again with the family. The other photos were out of focus for the foliage but it was like a miniscule denticlata in foliage and flower if that helps

[dan]

  I must say thankyou for sharing your pictures with us all Ian, they are absolutley stunning especially that unidentified anemone! Thye ahve certainly brightened my day up with all the terrible weather and flooding we'ver had lately.

[ranunculus]

Only just discovered this thread Ian, what a magnificent trip and such wonderful images. Many, many thanks.  It looks a little different to our joint strolls in the Dolomites!!!

[ian mcenery]

Just returned from another trip to the Dolomites well someone has to do it.
Thank you all for your kind comments. Cliff all cyps were finished but the flowers of most alpines still good higher up

When I get time I will show some shots

[ranunculus]

Ian....you may be able to identify your stunning anemone at the following link:-

MY APOLOGIES...THE LINK IS TO A PDF FILE AND WILL NOT DOWNLOAD DIRECTLY. YOU WILL NEED TO GO TO THE FOLLOWING PAGE:-


http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=EJB&volumeId=64&issueId=01



AND OPEN THE PDF FILE FROM THE APPROPRIATE LINK UNDER THE HEADING:-



REVISION OF ANEMONE SECT. HIMALAYICAE (RANUNCULACEAE) WITH THREE NEW SERIES

[ian mcenery]

Thanks for the lead Cliff though my eyes may heal up reading the botanical data

Can you help with this one its from the Dolomites?

[Lesley Cox]

Well it looks suspiciously like a buttercup to me but the gentleman above will know for sure, and which one.

[ranunculus]

Well Ian,
Did you stumble across this beautiful buttercup at Falzarego, on the route back down from Lagazuoi  -  or on the busy bend at the top of the Sella Pass?
It is the large leaf form of the gorgeous R. seguieri....a plant 'very' dear to my heart (two Farrer Medals many moons ago with the more filigreed leaf form), but I do have a number of established plants of this particular form (from seed collected at Lagazuoi), which strongly resembles (but isn't, of course) a cross between R. seguieri and R. glacialis. I would be interested to know where you found it and the date if possible?  Many thanks for sharing.

[ian mcenery]

Cliff I will send detail you requested as a seperate email

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Ian,
I thought it would be from Lagazuoi.....a buttercup addict never forgets his best fixes!
I still dream about my first encounters with R. glacialis on the Hintertux.....sends shudders down the spine.