A Forumist in Mallorca...

[Jim McKenney]

Actually, I have to confess that my first thought was that they might be heavy-duty lithophragmic poacher's spades designed especially for crocuses growing in rocky terrain. 

[Paddy Tobin]

Thomas & Hans,

Great photographs, loving this thread. Many thanks, Paddy

[Gerdk]

Thomas,
Thank you for these imposing impressions!

Hans,
Nice to have a current look at the very young man I met long ago in Wuppertal!

Gerd

[Armin]

Hans and Thomas,
thank you for showing us these wee beauties in their scanty environment!

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks you everyone for the compliments - great you like our photos!

There was no need to use bagpipes - we met only a few (nice) people on our trip.

I still have some photos for you to show:

002 - Funghus still life in the dark woods around Massanella
060+077 - Hans riskin his life for a good photo 
097 - Lonely yew near the peak
all the rest - Crocus cambessedesii

[tonyg]

Brilliant Hubi & Hans!
Thomas - where are you going next?

[Armin]

Thomas,

Who is the king of Mallorca?
No!!! it is not Jürgen Drews

C. cambessedesii is it!

They look like tiny imperati's!
There is no doubt for me - close relatives...all members of nobility

[Thomas Huber]

Armin, I don't think Jürgen will leave the party to climb on Massanella - no beer there, no girls, no music.... 

Next relative to cambessedesii is versicolor. But imperati is not far away from both on the crocus family tree


Tony next destination are the French Alps and Liguria.

[Hans A.]

Thanks for all the kind comments, it was really a fun to make this tour with Thomas, many thanks to him.
Gerd, - you are right, it is long ago we met the last time  - hope to meet you in nearer future again...

here some more pictures of other plants (not crocus! )

First two are relicts of te last Ice-Age...
Acer granatense
Taxus baccata

[Hans A.]

... a helleborus   and an endemic Hypericum...

 Helleborus foetidus
Hypericum. balearicum

[Hans A.]

...landscapes...

[Hans A.]

And here the big secret : Thomas with his Backpipes
He is nearer to convince me to become a croconut, than use this type of backpipes (the number of wolves is really small in this area )

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show people - thanks again !
Hans - you surprised me with your last pix - I thought there were only Crocus growing in Mallorca... obviously there's some other plants too... 

[Thomas Huber]

WOW Hans, but like Luc I didn't realize that there were other plants than Crocus on our trip 

If you reach my age you will know what great help these kind of bagpipes can be 

[Maggi Young]

I see why the crocus are so happy in Mallorca.... the mountains are very beautiful 
  I have never been to Mallorca so it is most interesting to me to see the landscape from your lovely photos, Hans and Hubi