Greece autumn 2017

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This year we travelled to Greece for the first time end of October, 15 hours driving from Southern Bavaria till the Greek border.

First place was the locus classicus of Crocus macedonicus in the Vertiskos range North of Thessaloniki but the weather was terrible in the beginning.

Crocus macedonicus





Crocus pulchellus
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In late afternoon the weather get better, the days are much to short at this time of the year.

Crocus macedonicus


Crocus pulchellus

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The second day has started cloudless and stayed it for the whole day. So I decided to stay at the southern foothills of Mt. Olympos.

We have started with closed Crocus mazziaricus in the morning and passed the mountain from Leptokarya to Elassona.



Biotope of Crocus mazziaricus



Cyclamen graecum

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The view from the mountain to the east and of it were great.




Crocus mazziaricus opened a bit at Karya


Olympos seen from the south.

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A very nice surprice along the road, Crocus macedonicus.

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The next location followed soon.

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The last place to visit at this day was south of Elassona.



Crocus mazziaricus




Then we had a three and a half hours drive to Isthmus to meet our friends.

[Gerdk]

Wonderful pictures - please continue! I am nearly going to be a croconut! 

Gerd

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Thanks Gerd, you can be sure I will continue.

[Maggi Young]

Stefan - very fine photos - thank you!

 Gerd -  there is no finer calling than to be a croconut !   There is more to life than narcissus in Jerez, eh?!!

[Gerdk]

Gerd -  there is no finer calling than to be a croconut !   There is more to life than narcissus in Jerez, eh?!!

-- of course, Maggi, you are right! But honestly - does a life without narcissus makes sense?

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

-- of course, Maggi, you are right! But honestly - does a life without narcissus makes sense?

Gerd

  Now I think about it ...... perhaps not!       

[Yann]

great report Stefan 

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Our friends arrived 2 hours later at the meeting point and then we were 4 for one day.

Next morning we discovered Merendera attica just 50m off the car by chance.





We had discovered Crocus mazziaricus in the evening before with torch light.



We then went to the centre of the Peloponnese for more and other Crocusses.



and we have found Spiranthes spiralis first.

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We have found two other Crocusses around Manthyrea. Crocus hadriaticus was the first we have discovered









but also many Sternbergia sicula.