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Title: Panda and wild flowers of southwest of China
Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:09:46 AM: I just came back from Sichuan in southwest of China, there are many many flowers and animals, Panda and Dove tree's home.

Panda baby in Wolong, so naughty and curious that see you yet when it lie.
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:14:27 AM: Impatiens spp. it is so wet from June to October. frozen when winter.
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:24:15 AM: Arisarma spp. can you help me to differentiate them? weather is more similar to Europe than Beijing, -5C when winter and pleasantly cool summer, it is -20C winter to 40C summer in Beijing.

it is got tiger stripe on leafstalk in the 4th picture
over 40cm whisker in the 5th picture
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:29:46 AM: Clematis Thalictrum and Aquilegia， differentiate them is welcome
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:38:31 AM: Orchids

Cypripedium franchertii and tibeticum, ca.3000~4000m
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:42:01 AM: Some other orchids

Orchis ？
the last one, Cymbidium macrorhizon , -10C cold hardy, without leaf and eat epiphyte only.
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 03:47:14 AM: Calanthe tricarinata， grow with Cypripedium franchertii
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Post by: ranunculus on July 12, 2007, 07:33:36 AM: Wonderful images Yijiawang....Many thanks for posting.
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Post by: PaulM on July 12, 2007, 08:14:25 AM: Yes, really interesting and fascinating pictures of your flora. Thank you for sharing them with us.
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Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 12, 2007, 08:36:47 AM: I second that and the fauna is pretty amazing, too!
Thanks!
cheers
fermi
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Post by: Brian Ellis on July 12, 2007, 09:06:36 AM: Thank you for posting these marvellous images Yijiawang. It is such a treat to see these plants in their natural habitat, much more interesting than on the showbench. I look forward to seeing images of your next trip ;D
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Post by: annew on July 12, 2007, 09:15:13 AM: Beautiful flowers and wonderful pandas. Thank you!
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Post by: Magnar on July 12, 2007, 09:20:58 AM: Thank you for showing such wonderful photos.. :)
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Post by: Lesley Cox on July 12, 2007, 09:59:44 AM: My thanks too Yijiawang. We are so lucky to have you in China, willing to share your wonderful flora with us, and the gorgeous pandas as well. They look so cuddly :)
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 11:25:32 AM: Your pleasure is my pleasure, so I am glad to share them with you too.

Calanthe alpina
ca.3200m, cold hardy orchid
grow on the ground or moss of tree, wet and very shallow roots .
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 11:44:38 AM: Alpine rock plants 1

so lots of flowers!
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 11:56:09 AM: alpine plants 2
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Post by: yijiawang on July 12, 2007, 12:04:26 PM: alpine plants 3
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Post by: Magnar on July 12, 2007, 12:43:47 PM: What a fantastic variety of plants in that area. I really would like to visit there.
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on July 12, 2007, 03:23:04 PM: Wonderful show Yijiawang ! :D
Thanks a million for sharing this ! ;)
What an enormous variety of gorgeous plants (not to forget the Panda's of course !!)
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Post by: ellenndan on July 12, 2007, 10:25:15 PM: Hi there Yijiawang.
Great pictures, i think the first Arisaema picture looks like Arisaema dilatatum, i cant help with others as yet but will keep looking. All the Arisaema look great.
Thanks Ellen and Dan
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Post by: gote on July 13, 2007, 06:45:30 PM: Yijiawang,
I agree with all that has been said about your pictures. Outstandingly interesting!
I have a question:
Your pictures of Cypripedium tibeticum shows a very open position. Is this an open meadow? I would have expected them to grow a little shaded but I have never seen them in the wild.
If it is an exposed location, do you remember if it was wet. I mean is there possibly water flowing from a glacier or a little river that keeps it moist?
regards
Göte
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Post by: yijiawang on July 15, 2007, 07:01:46 AM: to Gote,

yeah, C.tibeticum as same as C. macranthum， which seldom grow in forest, it is rain every day when rain season , which is from May to September, at the same time it is grow season too. so the soil is wet.

in some areas, Cypripedium flavum and tibeticum can grow at side of streamlet, even in water
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Post by: yijiawang on July 15, 2007, 07:26:08 AM: alpine plants, ca 4500m

Cassiope
Lestera .....Listera?
Rhodiola dumulosa
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Post by: yijiawang on July 15, 2007, 07:36:53 AM: Areneria
Androsace
Potentilla
Anemone？
Pedicularis
Gentiana
Saxifraga
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Post by: ranunculus on July 15, 2007, 07:58:31 AM: Lovely images once again Yijiawang....the fern is particularly pretty.

Are you a botanist, a student or simply a lover of alpine flora....and were these images taken as part of your studies or on a holiday away from your normal work?

Not prying, just very interested.

Kind regards,
Cliff
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Post by: shelagh on July 15, 2007, 11:12:24 AM: The Rhodiola dumulosa is wonderful but it is the last one on that section that really intrigues me. Is it a fern?

Shelagh
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Post by: mark smyth on July 15, 2007, 12:19:42 PM: I'm late to compliment you on your plants and Pandas. It's been great looking at them. How's gonna name them all?
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Post by: Casalima on July 15, 2007, 12:30:31 PM: Wonderful plants and wonderful photographs. I particularly love the lushness of the landscape, and the pandas, and the aquilegias, and the nameless wonders, etc etc

Congratulations!

Chloë
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Post by: yijiawang on July 15, 2007, 02:30:56 PM: Hi Cliff,
I understand you puzzle like anyone who know me that a youngling can get so many time to clean up garden nursery tour... I major clinic and was a docter 4 years, now I am a businessman of medicine, so I can control my time for hobby.

Hi shelagh,
thank you for you help me take the name of this Rhodiola, yeah, it is a fern, plants of that section all grow beside glacier, over ca. 4300m, very wet. btw: Rhodiola spp. is a important Chinese traditional medicine, reputedly, it can rise red blood cell so that persone anti-thin air.

Hi Mark Smyth,
welcome, I will enter Chinese academy of sciences if I can get absolute correct name, hehe, but I will try my best to do it.

Hi Chloë,
please let me show the mountain for you.
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Post by: Lesley Cox on July 15, 2007, 11:28:35 PM: Amazing and wonderful mountain shots, with glacier. Brrrrr! And I love that strongly coloured purple Androsace.
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Post by: gote on July 16, 2007, 05:37:52 PM: Thank you Yijiawang!
Very interesting.
Do you know what the blue corydalis is??
Göte
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Post by: yijiawang on July 17, 2007, 02:06:39 PM: to Gote,

Sorry for I am not albe to give it's name, maybe you friends can help you. I can not sure it can show so fresh blue on low land.
BTW: I heard a interesting news from a Lama: Cypripedium tibeticum flowers can be eaten, with cheese, heat up. very delicious reputedly.

to Lesley Cox,

I forget attache clearly picture of Androsace, lovely minisize flower
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Post by: yijiawang on July 17, 2007, 02:18:12 PM: subtropical plants, half cold hardy plants:

they grow together: Bletilla formosana Lilium sargentiae？Lysionotus spp.
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Post by: Lesley Cox on July 17, 2007, 10:30:45 PM: Yijiawang - I don't know which is prettier, you or the Androsace ; ;)