Crimea and Bessarabia snowdrops in March 2013

[MR GRUMPY]

    WOW
Off to book my ticket to the Crimea.What diversity!!!
Sveta is amazing,I hope you have retained many samples?(for research purposes of coarse )

[Oakwood]

Dima,  with such treasures in the OakWoods it is no wonder that you chose that name!

The curly "popcorn" types are very strange- is there pollution?

Maggi, I'm not sure it's caused by pollution - it's rather such type of mutation in those investigated population. The mass of such plants in one pic is indeed a collection of different plants with such petals from the whole population put by me at one site for demonstration   

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Dimitri,

Spring at the Krim, that looks fine.
The diversity of the flowers is fantastic.
Thank you for sharing the fotos.

[Oakwood]

Steve, I think our group with Ru well explored all crimean corners already     

[Oakwood]

Hi Hagen - not at all, I rather like travelling in mountains in spring and fall. Yes, plicatus diversity is really impressive! tired of photographing them all....... 

[mark smyth]

wow sveta and curly

[MR GRUMPY]

Sveta
Propeller
Waffles
Chinese Lantern
Green Tips 2
love them all

[Olga Bondareva]

Dima shown most of our findings. I just can add some views.















Mr. Zubov. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thanks to  you too, Olga

all our little gems need a habitat and often it is a surprisingly landscape too.
I love these lonely trips together with friends in the wild nature.

[Alan_b]

Thank you all for these photos.  It's my dream to visit locations like these where snowdrops grow wild, ideally in the company of a botanist with permission to collect samples in case we find something unusual.   

[Oakwood]

Thanks Olga - very showy pics as usually of our visited habitats     

[Olga Bondareva]

Thank you all for these photos.  It's my dream to visit locations like these where snowdrops grow wild, ideally in the company of a botanist with permission to collect samples in case we find something unusual.

Alan unfortunately no any state official organization can give you a permission. Collecting plants is not allowed at all.

Oakwood 

[Alan_b]

Alan unfortunately no any state official organization can give you a permission. Collecting plants is not allowed at all.

I think the intention of laws that seek to protect wild plants by making it illegal to collect them is very good.  But, in my opinion, it is a pity that collection of very small quantities of plant material by authorised persons is not allowed.  Is seed collection permitted?   

[Oakwood]

Olga, I would ask you to put a pic of our most advanced botanist Sveta making her botanic job with her botanic fingers     

[Olga Bondareva]

Olga, I would ask you to put a pic of our most advanced botanist Sveta making her botanic job with her botanic fingers

Specially for you.