Author Topic: Madagascar November 2015 (Read 13811 times)

Hoy · « **Reply #15 on:** November 30, 2015, 08:19:03 PM »

Quote from: Gerdk on November 30, 2015, 07:41:38 AM

This kind of pictures are exactly what we need during NH November.
Thank you Trond for sharing these wonderful impressions!

Gerd

You are welcome, Gerd!
I looked for violets (Viola abyssinica is known here) but did not find any

Hoy · « **Reply #16 on:** November 30, 2015, 08:32:49 PM »

When we entered the forest at the foot of the cliffs, and later inside the canyons, I was astonished to find a fern native to Norway albeit rare but very frequent here: Osmunda regalis.

Inside the canyons the vegetation was very lush. The smell of plants and wet soil filled the air and mixed with the sound of running water and birds.

Fern trees and Pandanus.

Tristemma mauritianum (?) has small flowers but the leaves are beautiful.

Hoy · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2015, 08:47:12 PM »

The canyons were a dream! A little watercourse in the sand at the bottom at this time of the year but more savage later and possibly inaccessible in late summer (January - February).

Lots of different ferns grew on the vertical walls.

Some places it was narrow and big boulders filled the passage.

End of the easy path - we didn't climb up here but took a bath in the temperate water.

Robert · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2015, 08:50:01 PM »

Trond,

Very fascinating!

Most of the plants I know nothing about. The native landscape and habitat is very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Hoy · « **Reply #19 on:** November 30, 2015, 09:04:37 PM »

Quote from: Robert on November 30, 2015, 08:50:01 PM

Trond,

Very fascinating!

Most of the plants I know nothing about. The native landscape and habitat is very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Robert,

it was indeed very fascinating and exciting to be there

The landscape and the plants were very exotic

Hoy · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2015, 09:18:43 PM »

Like an advanced rock garden . . . or better!

With many species of unknown ferns.

Some almost familiar plants.

Catharanthus sp.

Commelina sp(?)

Hoy · « **Reply #21 on:** December 01, 2015, 06:12:07 PM »

Orchids. We found many orchid species but unfortunately it was a bit early for flowers. All we found were epiphytes like this one, growing on the underside of a trunk.

A king's grave. Can you spot it?

Pandanus sp. It is about 80 species of this genus in Madagascar.

Early morning. We are on our way across the mountain.

Hoy · « **Reply #22 on:** December 01, 2015, 06:50:52 PM »

View.

Pachypodium rosulatum.

Unknown rock dweller. Xerophyta sp.

fermi de Sousa · « **Reply #23 on:** December 01, 2015, 10:50:26 PM »

Quote from: Hoy on December 01, 2015, 06:50:52 PM

Unknown rock dweller.

Possibly Nivenia? maybe N. fruticosa which apparently occurs in Madagascar,
cheers
fermi

Hoy · « **Reply #24 on:** December 02, 2015, 06:19:51 PM »

Quote from: fermi on December 01, 2015, 10:50:26 PM

Possibly Nivenia? maybe N. fruticosa which apparently occurs in Madagascar,
cheers
fermi

Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think it is a Nivenia. It is possibly a member of Iridaceae but the foliage don't fit the pictures I have found.

Gabriela · « **Reply #25 on:** December 02, 2015, 06:25:13 PM »

I hope you have enough pictures coming for the whole winter Trond!

The Commelina? is a Commelina (seen a few in Mexico).

Isn't that interesting how Osmunda regalis shows up in so many places of the world?
(I understand that ours is O. regalis var. spectabilis but still...)