Alpines in Armenia

[stellan]

I was in Armenia this year by bike and here are som photos from Mount Aragat. The mountain are located 40 miles west from Yerevan


Saxifragasp.


Aconitum sp.


Pedicularis sp.


Campanula sp.

/Stellan
More pictures from the trip at www.sandstorm.se press "Bilder"

[Maggi Young]

Great pictures, Stellan. welcome to the Forum, by the way.
 Am I correct... are you Peter's brother, the botanist with the bicycle?
We have heard lots about you  and we are growing some plants in our garden from seed you have sent to Peter... thank you for that!!
And, if so, is it today his birthday ? Someone told me they thought it was the 6th November, though 5th is what he has on his profile here!

[stellan]

Hey Maggi

It's correct... My brother is Peter Korn and I have travel few years by bike and have collect seeds during that time. I nice to hear that some of the plants grow in gardens in UK. I have some more seeds at home and Peter have to take of them. I will stay in Sweden to end of the winter and after out on the roads again. Will go back to Central Asia and Western China. Where are som lovely mountains I want to see again.


Last time in China, 17 000 feet... 2003

/Stellan

[Lesley Cox]

Very nice to meet you Stellan, and to see your super website. Any ideas about the identity of that lovely and very unusual iris in Kazakstan? From the foliage it looks like from the Oncocyclus group but the flower is quite different from those.

[stellan]

I think it's not any Oncocyclus Iris. The flowers was small and differnt from other iris in that group. I don't know what kind of iris it was. I send it back to Sweden but it died. I'll go back to Kazakhstan next spring and I think I can find the plant again. I remember the place and I'll try to found it again. I found the plant only at one spoot in the southern part of the country. There was different colours and if i found the plant again I'll collect seeds.

 

/Stellan

[Paul T]

Beautiful!  Particularly that last iris pics. 

[stellan]

Maybe not an alpines and not from Armenia...


Rhododendron luteum, Adjara, Georgien 7 000 feet. In background Fagus orientalis and Abies nordmannia


Rhododendron luteum

/Stellan
www.sandstorm.se

[Brian Ellis]

Great pictures Stellan, welcome to the forum, I look forward to joining you on more of your travels through the photographs.

[Otto Fauser]

Stellan, such stamina and enthusiasm to cycle through all those remote places [at my age I would have to do it in my next life?]-I looked at all your Bilder : beautiful and fascinating. please continue posting more of your excellent photos-the closeup of Crocus speciosus was superb !
 Could the Iris in Kazakhstan be I. falcifolia ,in section Hexapogon, closely related to the Regelias,
which is discribed from Kara kum and Kyzl kum in Kazakhstan
   Ciao Otto.

[stellan]

Otto Fauser wrote:
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> Stellan, such stamina and enthusiasm to cycle through all those remote places [at my age I would have
> to do it in my next life?]-I looked at all your Bilder : beautiful and fascinating. please continue posting
> more of your excellent photos-the closeup of Crocus speciosus was superb !
> Could the Iris in Kazakhstan be I. falcifolia ,in section Hexapogon, closely related to the Regelias,
> which is discribed from Kara kum and Kyzl kum in Kazakhstan
>  Ciao Otto.

Thanks again...
I have to look at a good map later... The map I have now tell me that it's was in southeast part of the kazakh distric Kzyl-Ordinskaya so it should be in east part of Kara kum...

/Stellan

[stellan]

Some more alpines... This time from South Ossetian (North Georgia) less than one mile from the border to Ingushetia/Russia.

First five Sempervivum between 7 000 - 9 000 feet










Next Euphrasia 7 000 feet




Next Draba 10 000 feet




Next Veronica 10 000 feet




Nice wiev from the area 10 000 feet


Me biking around in the mountains... 10 000 feet


/Stellan
www.sandstorm.se

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Stellan !
Great to see your pictures here !
Thanks a lot for giving us part of the feeling you must be experiencing traveling through these remote, harsh mountains on your bike.
I have a mixed feeling of some jealousy and admiration... the latter prevailing.. 
I hope to see lots more from you.
Happy cycling.

[Carlo]

Luc,

What a lovely Freudian slip...

"traveling on your bank..." is what I believe you wrote.

This is how I usually travel...and is as good an explanation as any for why I don't travel more... If I followed the example set here and traveled on a bike, it may be a little more financial feasible. (Now I just need to get a good bike!).

That being said I am going to be in Windsor (UK) for a wedding in spring...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Oops - I'd better reedit Carlo... 

I bet you won't be going to Windsor on your bike 

[ranunculus]

If only we'd have known Carlo....you could have combined a lecture tour as well?