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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Tristan_He on August 29, 2015, 09:18:05 PM

Title: Slovenia: around Lake Bohinj
Post by: Tristan_He on August 29, 2015, 09:18:05 PM

Hi all, just returned from a 3 week holiday in Europe. Highlight was a week in Slovenia, fabulous country packed with beautiful plants, and so unspoilt. Here are some photos from the woodlands around Lake Bohinj. I don't have an ID guide for the area so identifications are tentative.

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Salvia glutinosa was very common in woodland.

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Cirsium oleraceum grew in damp woodland edge and meadow habitat.

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This pretty little Campanula occurred on dry rocky slopes and limestone cliffs (a common habitat in Slovenia) and seemed to be quite widespread. I think it may be C. cespitosa.

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Gentiana asclepiadea was very common in woodland and scrub, and occurred in a wide range of blue shades.

Tristan

Title: Re: Slovenia: around Lake Bohinj
Post by: Tristan_He on August 29, 2015, 09:28:53 PM

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We saw several monkshoods on our trip, including this one scrambling through scrub in a dry ravine near Bohinj. We didn't see it again. I think it may be Aconitum degenii.

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Here is the ravine it grew in. It drops precipitously off Vogel and presumably receives torrential flooding during snowmelt and is largely dry at other times.