Author Topic: Spring treasures in Rhodes (Read 7148 times)

Leucogenes · « **Reply #15 on:** April 13, 2019, 06:14:27 AM »

Absolutely world class... Yann. I think the plants were just waiting for you. 😊
I am also looking forward to more pictures.

Yann · « **Reply #16 on:** April 13, 2019, 12:50:54 PM »

April is also the month of bulbs, here're few of them

Bellevalia trifoliata, it can grows in wet clay or in dry hills. It's a very early species and most of them were faded.

Muscari weissii

Muscari comosum

Moraea sisyrinchium

Yann · « **Reply #17 on:** April 13, 2019, 12:58:53 PM »

Allium subhirsutum

Cyclamen rhodium

Yann · « **Reply #18 on:** April 13, 2019, 01:03:27 PM »

Dracunculus vulgaris were just flowering as the cold winter delay many plants.

Leena · « **Reply #19 on:** April 13, 2019, 02:30:41 PM »

Paeonia rhodia, I am stunned. And the picture of Dracunculus vulgaris is just amazing! You have been in plant paradise, thank you for sharing the pictures.

Yann · « **Reply #20 on:** April 13, 2019, 02:34:25 PM »

yes it's one of the plants paradise in Europe. More to come later..i'm in the fields.

Yann · « **Reply #21 on:** April 13, 2019, 08:12:41 PM »

Here's a very rare and critically endangered plant : Centaurea lactuciflora

One site is accessible along the road, all the others spots are not easy to reach, the one i visited has a 60% hill (1 foot ahead, 2 backward).

After 20mn of ascent the graal is visible.

Still 5mn to access the foot hill

Yann · « **Reply #22 on:** April 13, 2019, 08:17:27 PM »

a few more of this endemic

on the lower parts of the rocks one can fin several other unusual plants

Centranthus calcitrapae

Arabis purpurea

Ranunculus creticus

Yann · « **Reply #23 on:** April 13, 2019, 08:46:11 PM »

Still in the descent i also found Gagea peduncularis

Arabis verna

Knautia dipsacifolia

the scattered Saxifraga hederacea, flowers are 3-4mm

and the rare Symphytum circinale

Yann · « **Reply #24 on:** April 13, 2019, 10:51:10 PM »

Quote from: Leucogenes on April 13, 2019, 06:14:27 AM

Absolutely world class... Yann. I think the plants were just waiting for you. 😊
I am also looking forward to more pictures.

thank you Thomas, to be at the right time is always a poker party. This year the late season in the Balkans offer us a lot of blossoms.
My best season for the last 20 years while in my country the drought is disastrous.