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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:03:22 PM

Title: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:03:22 PM
I now work at a botany institute and there is a seed bank aiming to preserve the endangered  species of China. The seed bank recently started a project of pleione seed preservation. As pleione is not easy to set fruit in the wild ,we need to pollinate them before we can get the seeds. that's how this trip comes.
what impressed me was the species coexistence within a short range but no hybrid individuals(pleione confusa) was found
it's excited to see 3 species blooming at the same time on one mountain.
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:05:15 PM
go on
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:08:22 PM
dozens of albiflora and forestii clones were discovered
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:10:24 PM
forestii
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:12:29 PM
forrestii
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: vigor on April 20, 2014, 05:15:20 PM
the last species bulbocodioides
ok complete!
i need go to bed now......
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: Pauli on April 20, 2014, 05:19:01 PM
Superb pictures!

I hope one day I can see these plants with my own eyes :P!
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: Alex on April 20, 2014, 07:25:52 PM
Wow!!

Thank you very much for posting these. How great to see these plants with your own eyes. Even if we can't be there, it is very informative to see the environments in which these species grow. As an aside, I wonder why bulbocodioides and forrestii don't hybridise in the wild, given they grow so close together.

Alex
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: Steve Garvie on April 20, 2014, 09:43:36 PM
Fantastic images!!!
Great to see photographs of these plants in the wild.
Many thanks for posting this!
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: erf on April 21, 2014, 11:48:58 AM
Amasing pictures. Would I like to see it on my own.  :) :) :)
I was in the Yunnan province April two years ago, but did not see any. So maybe I have to go again.  :D
Thanks for posting these wildlife pictures of pleione.
Regards Erling
Title: Re: The trip to find pleione on Cangshan , 3 species were found !
Post by: Maren on April 22, 2014, 12:21:12 AM
Vigor,
wonderful pictures. Seeing them in the wild is so interesting, your habitat shots are great. It must have been hard work to get there. thank you for sharing your experiences with us. :) :) :)
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