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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: John Mitchell on July 24, 2009, 12:52:15 PM
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I have just returned from a trip which took us from Chengdu to Lhasa the first twenty images are from Sichuan and the rest are from Tibet. The weather was mixed but the plants were exceptional the closer we got to Lhasa.
Androsace bisulca var. aurata
Arisaema
Astragalus acaulis
Cardiocrinum giganteum var yunnanense
DSC_6235. glacier
DSC_6269. rhododendron
DSC_6980. nud
DSC_7078.mum and child
L .sargentiae.
Lilium bakerianum.
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a few more
Lilium lophophorum
Mec lancifolia
Mec Ruddis. ( rudis )
Primula euprepes
Pedicularis
Primula
Rhododendron orbiculare
Rheum alexandre
Roscoea tibetica
Stellera field
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Hello, John, welcome back!
Looks like a most worthwhile trip.
Edit at 20.30pm : I have resized John's photos... that is why they are not showing a correct number of "views"
..... click the pix to enlarge them....
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...and most enjoyable they are, thanks John for showing us.
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...and most enjoyable they are, thanks John for showing us.
..... and that stunning Primula euprepes - what a color!
Gerd
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Fascinating photos! Those lilies - just stunning! Terrific glacier view... I'm sure there is interesting background to that shot! Were you roped up, etc.?
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Hi Lora you make it all sound interesting but in fact it was taking in a cable car over the Minya Conga Glacier it might have been safer with ropes!!
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John,
Astonishingly beautiful photographs, such magical colour and form in some of the plants. I particularly like seeing the rheum; it's just such an odd thing.
Many thanks, really enjoyed the shots.
Paddy
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test of smaller files.... still click the pix to enlarge them.... 8)
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John - Thanks for making time to share these with us. Some stunning pictures. Hope there will be time for a few more.
Thanks to Maggi for making them easier to view. Although the detail in the big versions is great, the scrolling is awkward.
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John,
Thank you for this veritable feast of beauties. The Liliums for starters alone are worth seeing by themselves, but then so many other beauties as well. Thanks heaps!! 8)
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Hi John,
Fantastic pictures of beautifull plants!
Thanks for showing!
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The next lot of slides are from Tibet and hopefully they are not to large. (edit by Maggi: too big, John, I have edited them!)
Most of these were taken near the Tsangpo gorge area at a height of 4500m to 4600m. we managed to hit this area at the right time i have never seen such large numbers of one species all in flower and every corner we turned we would find a different species. To me the three highlights would be Caltha sinogracilis by the hundred Primula agleniana by the thousand and hundreds of Rheum nobile all in flower at once.
Allium kingdonii
Androsace bisulca var. brahmaputrae
Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora
Caltha
Corydalis hendersonii
Corydalis milareapa
Corydalis spec.
Delphinium spec.
DSC_6998.group
DSC_7059. view
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Next lot
7175 scree
7342 long view hairpin bends
7730 primula slope
7741 snowbanks
7742 snow near road
7811 rhodo
7878 fording river
7956 rheum interior
8196 man
8379 monks
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a few more
Eritrichium spec.
Gentiana.
Lilium nanum.
Mec horridula type.
Mec integrifolia
Mec prattii.
Meconopsis baileyi (syn. M. betonicifolia) 1.
Meconopsis baileyi (syn. M. betonicifolia)
Notholirion bulbuliferum
Omphalogramma cf. tibeticum
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and some more
Paraguilegia microphylla
Pedicularis 1
Pedicularis 2
Pheasants
Primula agleniana 1
Primula agleniana 2
Primula agleniana 3
Primula cawdoriana
Primula dryadifolia ssp. congestifolia
Primula tanneri ssp. tsarensis var. protecta
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last batch
Pyrola rotundifolia var. sinensis.
Rhododendron forrestii.1
Rheum nobile1.
Rheum nobile.2
Rhododendron forrestii.2
Rodgersia aesculifolia.
Salween. view with John M
Solmslobachia spec.
Streptotis simplex.
White caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora
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John absolutely fantastic selection of great plants . thanks for sharing
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Hi Ian,
Glad you enjoyed, it is great to share these pictures with other people.
John
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John,
Wonderful selection - some plants are simply unbelievable (the Calthas for instance)!
Gerd
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John thanks for taking us to a plant wonderland. Were there any roses?
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Hi Gerd,
yes the caltha was an amazing plant such a dark purple colour and the sad thing is it is not in cultivation.
Pat, I don't normal do roses but just for you here are a couple of Rosa serica type
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John thank you for showing the roses. Guess no seeds were collected as they were still flowering.
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sadly no but hopefully next year we are planning two expeditions to the same same area.
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Thanks John, some super plants, love those rheum and the sheets of Primula 8)
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Stunning series John !!! :o :o
What an amazing trip you've made !!
Thanks so much for sharing !
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Magical. 8)
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Head still spinning from your wonderful photos John.
Marvellous Pyrola.
Thanks so much for posting them.
johnw
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John, I wouldn't know where to start to comment on these photos!
So many plants that we are so fond of, or would love to grow....a real pleasure to be given the chance to share in the trip.
It may be a revelation to some to see that Botanic Garden staff have more to do than just pull weeds in the garden or sit in dusty herbariums ::)... there is real "get out and see it" work to be done, too! 8)
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An amazing display of incredible plants ... and, more importantly perhaps, so beautifully captured. Many thanks for this wonderful record of a truly breathtaking journey.
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:o O_O That was my first reaction to the photos I saw. I just couldn't beleive my eyes. Fabulous photos and those marvels species... Where can I get Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora and Primula cawdoriana. ;D I got sick for those species. ;D If they are in cultivation I have to get them for mu cousin, she would be so happy to have them. Life is to short to see all the great places and thanks to you I felt for a moment like I was there. Many thanks.
Cheers,
Chris
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:o O_O That was my first reaction to the photos I saw. I just couldn't beleive my eyes. Fabulous photos and those marvels species... Where can I get Caltha sinogracilis f. rubriflora and Primula cawdoriana. ;D I got sick for those species. ;D If they are in cultivation I have to get them for mu cousin, she would be so happy to have them. Life is to short to see all the great places and thanks to you I felt for a moment like I was there. Many thanks.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Chris,
I think i am right in saying that the Caltha and the Primula are not in cultivation or i have never come across them for sale. Sorry to disappoint.
Cheers,
john
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An amazing display of incredible plants ... and, more importantly perhaps, so beautifully captured. Many thanks for this wonderful record of a truly breathtaking journey.
Thanks cliff glad you enjoyed. I will try and post a few more if i get the chance. (Sorry maggie)
Cheers,
JOhn
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An amazing display of incredible plants ... and, more importantly perhaps, so beautifully captured. Many thanks for this wonderful record of a truly breathtaking journey.
Thanks cliff glad you enjoyed. I will try and post a few more if i get the chance. (Sorry maggie)
Cheers,
JOhn
Ha Ha! This is going to cost you so much chocolate, John! ;D
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as always Maggie i will endeavor to make them the right size !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and chocolate is in the post
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I love it when a plan comes together!!
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Thanks :) What a marvellous trip... on my chair :)
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Wow :o
Thanks for sharing with us these AMAZING photos!
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I have come in at the last post but want to say how much I have enjoyed your travels from Chengdu to Lhasa - what an amazing journey so tangibly captured in spirit in your photographs, John. Thanks so much for showing so many new and unusual plants I have never seen before blending in with and picking up the colours of the rocks in an extraordinary way. It is a different world of colour and light which illuminates the flora.
Afterwards I looked at the Royal Botanical Gardens site and was very impressed - as Maggi rightly says a lot goes on behind the scenes!
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I have come in at the last post but want to say how much I have enjoyed your travels from Chengdu to Lhasa - what an amazing journey so tangibly captured in spirit in your photographs, John. Thanks so much for showing so many new and unusual plants I have never seen before blending in with and picking up the colours of the rocks in an extraordinary way. It is a different world of colour and light which illuminates the flora.
Afterwards I looked at the Royal Botanical Gardens site and was very impressed - as Maggi rightly says a lot goes on behind the scenes!
Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your kind words.I am glad you have also looked at the wed site we tend not to blow our own trumpet compared to other institutes which to me is a shame.
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Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your kind words.I am glad you have also looked at the web site we tend not to blow our own trumpet compared to other institutes which to me is a shame.
I think you are probably right about that, John.... all the more reason for you to be flying the RBGE flag here, to a wider audience!
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Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your kind words.I am glad you have also looked at the web site we tend not to blow our own trumpet compared to other institutes which to me is a shame.
I think you are probably right about that, John.... all the more reason for you to be flying the RBGE flag here, to a wider audience!
Thanks Maggie (hope you got the Chocolate)
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Thanks Maggie (hope you got the Chocolate)
No, but the Postman is looking a little chubbier....... ::)
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This is the last lot of pictures from Tibet. I have put one Lilium in which we think might be Lilium georgei it look very similar to the herbarium sheet but the colour description does not match but everything else seems right. It was found in upper Burma so again this could be a first for this area.
Androsace cf. zambalensis
Androsace sp.
Codonopsis sp.
Diplarche multiflora.
Incarvillea cf. younghusbandii
Lilium cf georgei 1
pilgrims.
Pleurospermun
potala.
Lilium cf georgei 2
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Diplarche multiflora looks lovely nestled against the rocks. Pleurospermun is very unusual looking and rather ghostly :o
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Hi John, great to hear you are home safe and well and I agree with everyone the pictures are just stunning, thanks for showing these it must have been a fantastic trip and the weather looks good from the pictures, no rain? cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Thanks Ian i will show the Meconopsis to you at a later date
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Hi John,
I'm just catching up with things I missed while we were away - and this was an amazing trip you did! Thanks so much for sharing with us - even if it has cost you a fortune in chocolate! ;D
cheers
fermi
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wow!
i saw this title a while back, but didn't have a chance to get to it til now--some truly amazing plants! and i have to say, at times it makes me feel like we (in this region) got only the poor cousins in many genera!..lol..
here's hoping that caltha makes its way onto some seed lists!
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Some breathtaking stuff in this thread.... the hillside of Primulas is amazing, that purple Caltha, the glorious pic at the top of the second page of Paraguilegia microphylla :o... so many wonderful things to view. Thanks so much. 8)
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Thanks heaven - and Maggi - for that last link. I had never even SEEN this thread. Why didn't the notification come through as usual?
As a side note, my dentist, whose name is Geiling Huang, comes from Chengdu. She has no idea of the plants which grow near her home, only pandas.
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Like Lesley I am thankful to Maggi for the link to the Caltha.
Stunning pictures :o :) :o-
Are seeds of the Androsace available, or are they like others not in cultivation.
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I am stunned :o