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Title: Anemone halleri
Post by: Melvyn Jope on March 08, 2015, 08:26:52 PM

Anemone halleri in Northern Greece last week

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Post by: Melvyn Jope on March 08, 2015, 08:28:27 PM

A few more...

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Post by: Maggi Young on March 08, 2015, 08:33:58 PM

Quite simply glorious, Melvyn. I find myself thinking I must fetch a saucer of milk for the "kittens"  ;)

And as for the pinks - well , breathtaking!

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Post by: ashley on March 08, 2015, 08:43:46 PM

Stunning really, and so nice to see in the wild.

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Post by: Steve Garvie on March 08, 2015, 10:17:31 PM

Very nice images of this stunning plant Melvyn!!!

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Post by: mark smyth on March 08, 2015, 10:46:07 PM

fantastic

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Post by: Jupiter on March 09, 2015, 12:13:03 AM

Just gorgeous... I suppose they curl up and die is the temperature goes over 20C?  :-\

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Post by: ian mcenery on March 09, 2015, 12:02:13 PM

Great photos Melvyn as usual

This shot is the plant's view  ;)

and another

Title: Re: Anemone halleri
Post by: fixpix on March 09, 2015, 06:49:54 PM

Beautiful.
For a while i kept looking at the pics and i wanted to say it's Pulsatilla.
Then I googled and realized it goes by both names.  :D

Title: Re: Anemone halleri
Post by: greenspan on March 11, 2015, 09:38:12 PM

it's definitely Pulsatilla 8). i know that plant systematic sometimes places the genus to Anemone or treat it as a subgenus of Anemone but Pulsatilla is distinct from Anemone by the form of the stylus (Pulsatilla = stylus strongly elongate and plumose (see foto) (http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgjul08/Image28P.jpg), Anemone = stylus not elongate (see foto (http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgmay08/Photo39A.jpg)).

melvyn indicates the location in northern greece. i guess it's the greek part of the rhodopes, so the plant (and the thread ;)) should be labelled as Pulsatilla halleri ssp. rhodopaea.

wonderful fotos malvyn :D, especially the rose coloured...is it possible to get seed later that year? ::) ;D ;) 8)

Title: Re: Anemone halleri
Post by: Melvyn Jope on March 26, 2015, 07:33:29 PM

Have only just noticed this, I have always  known it as Pulsatilla but posted it on a Greek website and was advised that it is now Anemone, thinking they are likely to know the nomenclature relating to their plants I later posted it as Anemone....still thinking that I have a preference for Pulsatillaa     A fabulous plant  and a rose by any other name and all that.....

Title: Re: Anemone halleri
Post by: Karaba on March 26, 2015, 09:21:13 PM

There is a taxonomic explanation about Pulsatilla and Anemone in Flora Gallica : separating Pulsatilla (and Hepatica) from Anemone need, from a phyllogenetic point of view, the separation of other subgenus like Anemoloides (nemorosa, apennina, ranunculoides...), Homalocarpus (narcissiflora).... Pulsatilla and Hepatica are now subgenus of Anemone.
See Hoot & al. 2012 (http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=134521)  or Schuettpelz & al., 2002 (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Hoot/publication/226752321_Multiple_origins_of_Southern_Hemisphere_Anemone%28Ranunculaceae%29_based_on_plastid_and_nuclear_sequence_data/links/0deec515df1b12a5ef000000.pdf)