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Title: Totes Gebirge
Post by: johanneshoeller on July 06, 2008, 08:52:17 PM: Some pics from the Totes Gebirge from yesterday
Does anybody know the exact names of the Nigritellas and other orchids?
Exept the Nigritellas and Camorchis alpina with hybrids (?) I show you only very ordinary plants of these wonderful mountains. But the colours of all plants are very interesting here (very dark). The people in my village say: Here god has made the paradise. And this is true - I mean.

Chamorchis alpina
Nigritella nigra ssp. austriaca (2x) ?
Nigritella archiducis-joanis
Title: Re: Totes Gebirge
Post by: johanneshoeller on July 06, 2008, 08:56:41 PM: Part 2:

Nigritella widderi?
Coeloglossum viride
Nigritella nigra ssp. austriaca?
Lilium martagon
Gymnadenia conopsea
Hedysarum hedysaroides
Primula clusiana (2x)
Rhododendron hirsutum
Hedysarum hedysaroides
Title: Re: Totes Gebirge
Post by: johanneshoeller on July 06, 2008, 09:07:37 PM: Part 3:

Achillea clavenae
Dianthus alpinus
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
Allium ?
Ranunculus platanifolius
Saxifraga stellaris
?
Title: Re: Totes Gebirge
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 06, 2008, 09:53:17 PM: Lovely pictures Hans, especially the little Rhododendron.
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Post by: Magnar on July 06, 2008, 10:03:45 PM: I cant help with names, but I want to thank for the wonderful pics.
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Post by: Paul T on July 07, 2008, 02:25:41 AM: Beautiful!!
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on July 07, 2008, 09:26:31 AM: Magnificent pictures Hans ! Must be a great feeling to have such a rock garden in your back yard ... ;D
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Post by: art600 on July 07, 2008, 09:29:11 AM: Hans

All of the above. Today is a wet and depressing day - could be like this for the week - so it is great to be among the mountains.
Title: Re: Totes Gebirge
Post by: Joakim B on July 07, 2008, 10:50:07 AM: Hans great views and plants.
I like the nigritellas but is far from an expert. I also hand the first two different ones the way You had them nigra *2 and archiducis-joannis (known as Toten Vanilla Orchid in English) even though my old book does not have any ssp austriaca for nigra.
The third species I had trouble with and the closest I came to was N. lithopolitanica (Steineralp Vanilla Orchid) but it was a bit more pink and its distribution was was Steineralp Ostkarawanken and Koralp with "probably more widely distributed" written after. It tis supposed to flower before N. nigra.
I found in the appendix of my book N. widderi and it exist in Totengebirge so it seems to be a better candidate.

Thanks for sharing this unusual orchids with us

Kind regards
Joakim
Title: Re: Totes Gebirge
Post by: Stephenb on July 07, 2008, 11:49:21 AM: The Allium looks like it's Allium victorialis (Victory Onion). The leaves would have been broad, a bit like Ramsons (Allium ursinum).

Stephen