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Author Topic: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please  (Read 3130 times)

Tiggrx

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Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« on: July 14, 2008, 09:32:27 PM »
I was wondering if any of you guys could help ID these plants I found growing in the Julian Alps, Slovenia.

1. A Campanula. This one is really puzzling me. It was growing in the village of Brod not far from Lake Bohinj so may possibly have been a garden escape rather than natural. According to the local flora the species found in that area are: C. zoysii, patula, rapunculus, persicifolia, barbata, glomerata, cervicaria, spicata, thyrsoides, latifolia, trachelium, rapunculoides, bononiensis, carnica, witasekiana, inconcessa, cochleariifolia, cespitosa, scheuchzeri & rotundifolia. I haven't been able to convince myself it is any of them.

2. A Sedum. Growing amongst rocks near Kranjska Gora. Could it be S. atratum

3. A Silene?. Growing on rocks above Lake Bohinj.

I would be grateful for any help
Aaron






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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2008, 09:34:02 PM »
Sorry - not sure why pictures have come out so big (or sideways) :-[

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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2008, 11:09:14 PM »
The photo wasnt edited down. It was still in it's oraginal size os 2857 pixels wide.

Here it is
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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2008, 11:22:24 PM »
Perhaps the first is Campanula rotundifolia?
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2008, 07:06:50 AM »
Thank you Mark - now realize I could have attached the pics differently.

Lesley - not sure about C. rotundifolia - that was certainly a common plant in the area but this was rather bigger than average (c.40cm) and has broader stem leaves than I've seen on that species. Of course it is a very variable plant :)
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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2008, 06:01:18 PM »
Aron,
It is the annual Sedum atratum ssp. carinthiacum
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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2008, 07:41:11 PM »
I agree with Franz! See his website,for instance:
 http://www.franz-alpines.org/w_sedum_atratum_subsp_carinthiacum.html
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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2008, 10:00:51 PM »
Thanks Franz & Maggi. The nearest I could find was S. atratum but was a bit put off by the lack of red colour - mystery solved :)

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Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2008, 08:07:19 AM »
Possibly Silene veselskyi ... but I am not totally convinced.
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