Author Topic: Greece autumn 2017 (Read 7841 times)

sokol · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2017, 05:29:51 AM »

Some more Sternbergia pictures.

and Cyclamen hederifolium

sokol · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2017, 05:33:57 AM »

The second species was Crocus melantherus. It get cloudy from midday on and most of the Crocusses closed their flowers.

sokol · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2017, 05:45:57 AM »

We left this nice Crocus area and crossed the Northern Parnon to see more Crocus melantherus. We saw some of them but all were closed now.
Colchicum cupanii has left its flowers open fortunately as it opens at lower temperatures like the other smal flowered Colchicum.

It was dark again when we reached Leonidion, where we have spent the night.

sokol · « **Reply #18 on:** November 14, 2017, 05:51:31 AM »

The next day started with rain that stopped soon fortunately. We wanted to drive from Leonidio to Monemvassia through one of the best crocus areas of the Peloponnese. Meanwhile we were 5, another friend has joined us
We saw many Crocusses along the road and stopped, when everything seemed to be white of them.

Crocus hadriaticus

The kids have discovered a Tarantula while we have looked for plants.

sokol · « **Reply #19 on:** November 14, 2017, 06:38:47 AM »

Next stop was at one of the rare places of Ophrys cretica but this time especially for Crocus niveus.

sokol · « **Reply #20 on:** November 14, 2017, 06:41:07 AM »

We saw the next species at Lambokambos, Crocus goulimy.

sokol · « **Reply #21 on:** November 14, 2017, 06:45:41 AM »

There were also some Crocus laevigatus and Crocus niveus and hundreds of Sternbergia sicula and Cyclamen hederifolium.

Yann · « **Reply #22 on:** November 14, 2017, 04:52:38 PM »

Looks like you had fun, thanks for sharing.

sokol · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2017, 05:26:05 AM »

Yes we had, Yann, weather could have been better.

We started next at the coast. It looked like rain to the North:

A cemetery to the South on a small Island:

We tried to find Colchicum sfikasianum in that region but we haven't found it. The picture is from a cultivated plant. I had collected a very small bulb in spring 2010 that was lying on the road over there.

But we discovered our first Colchicum parlatoris that was mostly finished.

sokol · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2017, 05:36:11 AM »

We had a great location of thousands of a very pale Crocus goulimy instead of Colchicum sfikasianum.

and a tiny Ameles spec.

sokol · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2017, 05:44:13 AM »

We were still in the back country of Monemvasia

and the light was a bit better around midday when we discovered a spot with Colchicum cupanii

sokol · « **Reply #26 on:** November 15, 2017, 06:18:29 AM »

We have also found Crocus laevigatus at this spot but also at other places. It was a very white form of this species often without markings outside.