Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum

General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Klaas on February 10, 2010, 10:11:01 AM

Title: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: Klaas on February 10, 2010, 10:11:01 AM

Here are some pictures of our latest trip to Crete, for more pictures please visit: http://www.greekmountainflora.info/Crete/Crete11.html (http://www.greekmountainflora.info/Crete/Crete11.html)
If you want to join us on one of our tours on mainland Greece from May 2010, please visit: http://www.alpines-offroad.com/eng/index.htm (http://www.alpines-offroad.com/eng/index.htm)

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: Maggi Young on February 10, 2010, 12:46:12 PM

Here are the names of the plants pictured above, so that the search engine may find them....
Crocus laevigatus,  Asterousia, Crete
Crocus oreocreticus, Katharia plateau, Crete
Crocus tournefortii, northern coast, Crete
Colchicum cupanii , northern coast, Crete          all November 2009

Anemone coronaria, eastern Crete
Viola scorpiuroides, eastern Crete
Androcymbium rechingeri , Elafonisis Island, western Crete
Androcymbium rechingeri  close , Elafonisis Island, western Crete    all December 2009
Iris planifolia, western Crete   January 2010

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: TC on February 13, 2010, 10:38:53 PM

Here is a picture of Anchusa caespitosa taken on Gingelos in April 1995

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: Maggi Young on February 13, 2010, 10:45:49 PM

Oho! Nice Anchusa!

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: cohan on February 14, 2010, 04:53:01 AM

lovely images and flowers!
i hadnt realised that androcymbium makes it so far north--i only knew the genus (very little ) as south african..

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: Maggi Young on February 14, 2010, 10:53:30 AM

There are a few androcymbiums around the Med, Cohan and Androcymbium rechingeri is a Cretan endemic.

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: cohan on February 14, 2010, 09:01:40 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on February 14, 2010, 10:53:30 AM

There are a few androcymbiums around the Med, Cohan and Androcymbium rechingeri is a Cretan endemic.

and doesn't seem to look that dissimilar to the south africans i recall; still indoor plants for here, but always interesting to learn more...

Title: Re: Trip to Crete, November+December 2009 and January 2010
Post by: Oron Peri on February 15, 2010, 06:54:33 PM

Klaas
Great photos and websites,
Thank you.