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Title: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 19, 2013, 08:45:29 PM
Approximately each 4-5-6 years we with the husband travel on the mountains near Lake Baikal.
This year the my friend who too is present at this forum joined us - Natalia Lambrova.
I want to show a little of what we have seen in those distant lands.
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In Sludianka we came by train ... subsequently moved differently mainly on foot with knapsacks on our backs ...

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Brian Ellis on January 19, 2013, 08:49:10 PM
I am so pleased you have started this thread Natalia, I have wanted to see what the Lake Baikal area was like for some years, and I will never be able to travel there so I am happy ;D
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Maggi Young on January 19, 2013, 08:57:45 PM
It is exciting to see your trip, Natalia- I agree with Brian.  Thank you.
There is something pleasant in finding, so soon, that a marmalade cat looks the same all over the world!

Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ronm on January 19, 2013, 09:35:59 PM
Really looking forward to this thread Natalia, as we are hoping to visit the area in 2014.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Mavers on January 20, 2013, 11:11:35 AM
This is looking to be an interesting thread Natalia as this is an area of which I know very little.

Thank you for posting.

Mike
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Armin on January 20, 2013, 12:42:33 PM
Natalia,

I concur Mike. Please show us more - I'm curious ;D
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 20, 2013, 03:23:22 PM
Colleagues, thank you for your support.  :)
ronm - your cats are gorgeous! I begin the story, I hope my friend Natalie will participate in this topic - Baikal is so varied that talk about those places is very difficult. Everyone has their own impressions ....
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 20, 2013, 03:51:52 PM
One of the objectives of the trip were Cypripedium , we saw them on the first day ... And very different forms and different species...
Cypripedium macranthum - The Baikal plants of this species are considered as the brightest in the territory of Russia.
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 20, 2013, 04:10:07 PM
Cypripedium macranthum - This is a photo I found Cypripedium macranthum done my friend - Natalie. But I could not - I delight hands shook so that all the photos were out of focus. :D

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Cyprypedium calceolus - they finished blooming, but we managed to find a flowering plant...

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 20, 2013, 04:20:42 PM
Cypripedium guttatum - there were a lot of different designs and different shades, unfortunately not all photos were successful  :'(

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  Another very interesting plant -  Eranthis sibirica=Shibateranthis sibirica - Find it after flowering, if you do not know where to look - very difficult, but we managed to find and collect its seeds.

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ian mcenery on January 20, 2013, 05:04:30 PM
Love the pink macranthum  8) Fascinating trip Natalia I'm waiting for the next delights
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ranunculus on January 20, 2013, 05:22:00 PM
Wonderful thread, Natalia ... and with great prospects for further gems.  Many thanks for sharing your beautiful images.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ronm on January 20, 2013, 05:22:10 PM
Lovely pictures Natalia,  8)

In which month was your visit please?
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 20, 2013, 06:55:49 PM
Thanks to a colleague, I continue ...
We were at the end of June and early July.
Besides Cypripediumwe met a lot of other interesting plants.
Allium splendens
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Boschniakia rossica = Orobanche rossica, semi-parasite, original plant grows on roots Duschekia fruticosa
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Geranium eriostemon
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Brian Ellis on January 20, 2013, 07:00:04 PM
Wonderful pictures Natalia, what a treat for us to see, thank you.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 20, 2013, 07:18:27 PM
We were lucky this time -  bloomed other species of orchids and Lilium.

Orchis militaris
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Lilium martagon
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 Dactylorhiza hebridensis = Dactylorhiza meyeri
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Calypso bulbosa - Unfortunately, we could not find a flowering plant
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Melvyn Jope on January 20, 2013, 08:44:35 PM
Wonderful pictures Natalia, thank you for showing us.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 21, 2013, 07:26:41 AM
Melvin, thank you.
I hope that continuation of the story will be interesting to all...


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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 21, 2013, 07:34:19 AM
continue...
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 21, 2013, 07:54:50 AM
Krugobaikalka  - circle - absolutely other flora, steppe slopes, dry rocks blown by winds, and plants absolutely others... In the spring, right after snow thawing slopes are carpeted Pulsatilla. On different sources here grows from 2 to 4х species Pulsatilla
But also pincers here much more, than in other places :(

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 21, 2013, 08:19:45 AM
But Krugobaikalka is also a museum open-air - a railroad museum with tunnels, galleries and bridges.
Construction of the road was conducted from 1896 to 1900, and for last century of a plant all quite mastered constructed by people.

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on January 21, 2013, 10:01:25 AM
Fascinating thread Natalia !
The pictures are superb !
Thank you so much for taking us into this area full of surprises and totally unknown to me !  :-*
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Brian Ellis on January 21, 2013, 10:12:24 AM
What a delightful Lily that Lilium dauricum is, does anyone grow it?
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 21, 2013, 10:48:13 AM
Thank you, Luc. :)

Brian, Lilium dauricum - a usual lily in our gardens - it has also other names - Lilium maculatum ssp. dauricum=Lilium pensylvanicum =Lilium sachalinense.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Maggi Young on January 21, 2013, 10:55:26 AM

But also pincers here much more, than in other places :(

 
There is always a price to pay for these beautiful places - biting insects are usually the first !
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Lvandelft on January 21, 2013, 10:29:50 PM
Melvin, thank you.
I hope that continuation of the story will be interesting to all...

I love all your pictures Natalia! especially (amongst the other pics :) ) those of the Orostachys and to see them growing in nature!
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: mark smyth on January 21, 2013, 10:52:18 PM
DSC_0173.jpg is an Orange-tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines. Lovely photos!
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: LamNa on January 22, 2013, 11:41:48 AM
Hello! This is my first post here. My friend Natalie asked to put my photos of our trip to Lake Baikal.
 Crossing the river Slyudyanka
 Cypripedium calceolus
 Pyrola asarifolia
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Maggi Young on January 22, 2013, 11:57:44 AM
Greetings, LamNa - it has been worth the wait for your first post  ;) :)

I really love Pyrola -  your closeup photo and the lovely natural "rock" garden  with  Pyrola asarifolia making its home are a delight.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: LamNa on January 22, 2013, 01:47:44 PM
Thank you Maggie. Here are a few more photos
photo shoot with Tamias sibiricus
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Krugobaikalka
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Lilium pumilum
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Orostachys spinosa
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Botanica on January 27, 2013, 01:23:36 PM
Very nice trip in this area Nathalia, ;D

Many cypripedium species you have in this area , what a chance , in Europe (Alpes, vosges, jura) we have only Cyp.calceolus !

If you have other cypripedium picture could-you exposed them ?..don't forget i'am cypriAddict  :P  ;D

Very good story in pictures.

See you later.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Hoy on January 27, 2013, 08:35:17 PM
Thank you Natalia and Natalia! Lake Baikal and vicinities seem to be well worth a visit! Where did you stay during the nights? In tents, hostels or hotels?
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 29, 2013, 06:02:25 PM
Colleagues, thanks for kind words!

Mark, thanks - here and we will write down - Anthocharis cardamines:)

Botanitsa, thank you! I have some more pictures. We can discuss what you need.

Hoy, we go to the tent and stay in nature - a little later will show what and how. Hotels and camp sites in the southern part a bit, but there is - if you decide to go - I will give the address and note them on a map.

Colleagues, with your permission, I continue the story about a trip...
 
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Eritrichium  - maybe Eritrichium sericeum...

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Eritrichium  pink form - Eritrichium there are different - there is a pink and white
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 29, 2013, 06:24:06 PM
uite a lot of birds - particularly Larus argentatus and Phalacrocorax carbo. On railway tracks go their chicks.

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Family of crows flew to repair the nest.

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on January 29, 2013, 06:40:01 PM
Some more plants...  :)
 
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Wasp...
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Tim Ingram on January 29, 2013, 06:51:51 PM
Love the picture of the lily overlooking the lake. Nature never ceases to fascinate.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ranunculus on January 29, 2013, 06:57:03 PM
Delightful report and photographs ... many thanks once again.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 05:24:32 PM
Thanks, colleagues. I continue...
   
   
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 05:38:31 PM
Krugobaykalka struck us with abundance of plants from Fabaceae family...
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...and a variety of coloring of flowers one species of plant.

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Different peninsula on the banks of Lake Baikal each have a range of plants ...

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 05:43:12 PM
Some peninsula  - steppe vegetation, others - swamp
 
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Slope

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 ZIGADENUS sibiricus_ANTICLEA sibirica

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ZIGADENUS sibiricus_ANTICLEA sibiric

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Kultuk moor

 
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Rubus arcticus
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 05:55:13 PM
The settlement Kultuk - the most southern settlement on Baikal

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Kuktuk swamp - peat bog...

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 05:57:59 PM
continue...
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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ranunculus on February 01, 2013, 06:00:38 PM
Stunning images.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 06:08:25 PM
ranunculus, I thank, but these photos only small part of beauty of the Nature of Baikal...

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Hoy on February 01, 2013, 06:17:30 PM

Hoy, we go to the tent and stay in nature - a little later will show what and how. Hotels and camp sites in the southern part a bit, but there is - if you decide to go - I will give the address and note them on a map.

Thank you Natalia, I'll keep it in mind when I get the time to go there ;) Next summer is already booked . . . .

And thank you for the nice pictures from an interesting area!
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ronm on February 01, 2013, 06:46:43 PM
Fantastic images Natalia of, what is obviously, a very interesting part of the world.  :o

I have many questions but will wait until you have finished your postings,  :-X

Please post as much information as you can,   8)

PS  - Can anyone put names to the plant pics please, otherwise ( if I understand the system correctly ) these images won't be available to the search function, and therefore will be lost in time! :( :( -EDIT .... Thanks Maggi
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Maggi Young on February 01, 2013, 07:19:08 PM
Ron, I have been returning to Natalia's post to add the file names, bit by bit.  :)
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 01, 2013, 07:27:18 PM
Maggie, thanks, I forget to do it...  :-[
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Maggi Young on February 01, 2013, 07:28:06 PM
Maggie, thanks, I forget to do it...  :-[
Happy to help, Natalia!
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: LamNa on February 02, 2013, 10:13:23 AM
We continue
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On the shore of Lake Baikal.
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After the rain.
Very pleased with the variety of forms terry Anemone silvestris.
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Linnaea borealis
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 08, 2013, 04:18:01 PM
I finish excursion on the coast of Baikal the photo with Kultuk swamps

Menyanthes trifoliata
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Next we go to Tunkinskie alps...
   
    Beginning of the road to mountains
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    We go there....
    Primula nutans

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Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Natalia on February 08, 2013, 04:22:28 PM
continue...

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there we were in the morning

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Campanula dasyantha_three brothers

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Pentaphylloides fruticosa

Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Brian Ellis on February 08, 2013, 05:24:44 PM
Natalie this really is a very worthwhile thread, thank you again for taking the time to post your wonderful pictures and give us a flavour of the area around lake Baikal.
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ronm on February 08, 2013, 06:28:51 PM
 ;D Thank you for the edits Maggi,   ;) 8)
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Hoy on February 08, 2013, 08:40:34 PM
Regarding plant names in this thread, isn't the Trifoliums (except the red one) shown in reply # 38 actually Medicago sativa (M. sativa ssp sativa and M. sativa ssp falcata)?

Beautiful landscape and pictures, Natalia!
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: Lvandelft on February 08, 2013, 10:13:46 PM
Fantastic images Natalia!
I hope you don't mind but I sure will forget the name Pentaphylloides and stay with Potentilla  ;)
Title: Re: Lake Baikal and vicinities
Post by: ArnoldT on February 08, 2013, 10:30:45 PM
Natalia:

Thanks so much for sharing your photos.
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