The Travel Giraffe

[christian pfalz]

hi, very intersting pics and plants...i like this plants from the stepe, and dry areas....
please more 
chris

[cohan]

wow--i love this area! every single plant is great--the frit! the onosma, the bladder pods-brassicaceae?

[stellan]

wow--i love this area! every single plant is great--the frit! the onosma, the bladder pods-brassicaceae?

I don't know what it is. It's not Brassicaceae and I get more feeling for something from Berberidaceae but can't find the species. Leontice ??

It could also be something from Solanaceae

/Stellan
Edit: HZetterlund confirms as Leontice incerta

[tonyg]

Fabulous pictures.  I like 'uncluttered' places .... so different to home

The two-tone iris is my favourite ... any ideas what we call it?

[arisaema]

I don't know what it is. It's not Brassicaceae and I get more feeling for something from Berberidaceae but can't find the species. Leontice ??

It could also be something from Solanaceae

That's the Corydalis! Section Oocapnos, formerly Cysticorydalis, although I'm not sure which species

ETA: At least I'm pretty sure that's what it is, a picture from Holubec's seed list of 2007 below, same section but obviously a different species.

[cohan]

I don't know what it is. It's not Brassicaceae and I get more feeling for something from Berberidaceae but can't find the species. Leontice ??

It could also be something from Solanaceae

That's the Corydalis! Section Oocapnos, formerly Cysticorydalis, although I'm not sure which species

ETA: At least I'm pretty sure that's what it is, a picture from Holubec's seed list of 2007 below, same section but obviously a different species.

holy cow! corydalis! never would have thought of that thanks..do these seeds need to be really fresh like some other corys? that would seem a bad idea in that environment where i suppose germination conditions don't happen every year...

[stellan]

That's the Corydalis! Section Oocapnos, formerly Cysticorydalis, although I'm not sure which species

ETA: At least I'm pretty sure that's what it is, a picture from Holubec's seed list of 2007 below, same section but obviously a different species.

Corydalis It's hard to belive you but i think it's true... If itīs a Corydalis itīll make it more easy to get the name of the species.

The plant will get 4 black/brown seeds from each flower. The seeds are about 2 mm and are hard. I was in the area to early this year but I saw the seeds last year in Kazakhstan.

Thanks Arisaema

/Stellan

[stellan]

Here are some more pictures without Gerry.

Springflowers from Kazakhstan 2010-05-22

Index of pictures 2007-2010 Sorry, it's in Swedish...

[Maggi Young]

Superb photos as usual, stellan, thank you!

Remind me, please, how tall is Gerry?

[stellan]

Superb photos as usual, stellan, thank you!

Remind me, please, how tall is Gerry?

Gerry is about 35 cm tall. Here is two more photos of him from Kyrgystan in July last year

[christian pfalz]

hi stellan,
nice foto-gallery....absolutly perfect...
regards
chris

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Stellan, I was trying to tell someone what his height weas and wanted to be sure I got it right! He is quite a bit shorter than Peter, for sure! 

[cohan]

Superb photos as usual, stellan, thank you!

Remind me, please, how tall is Gerry?

Gerry is about 35 cm tall. Here is two more photos of him from Kyrgystan in July last year

good to keep that in mind, i think i was imagining him smaller!
and what an amazing thistle with peter and gerry!

[Lesley Cox]

Over the years our family trips were regularly punctuated by a small voice from the back of the car: "More desolate wasteland!"

Perhaps if they'd let you sit in the front Ashley?

[Lesley Cox]

The iris is my favourite too Tony, but then I would say that. I'd love to know what it is.

If those are the Corydalis seedpods on the two shown, what are the flowers like? On the Holubec species the foliage looks to be exceptionally fine (as in good, but also as in compact and deeply dessected).

Gerry has such good taste in flowers.