Kaprun in Austria

[cohan]

another great place with wonderful plants to see cant even pick faves from that bunch.
handy to only have to walk down

maggie--as you know, i love my close shots of flowers, and i never cease to be amazed and amused that almost every flower has at least one bug showing in the photo, and many have numerous! tiny flowers that you can only see in macro just have even tinier bugs you can barely see wih the naked eye!

[Carol Shaw]

And we're going back in 39 days... who me counting 

[Maggi Young]

And we're going back in 39 days... who me counting 

AGAIN? You Gadabouts!! 

[Peter Maguire]

David,
No one seems to have taken up your challenge of the orchid i-ds, so I'll have a guess (based on some recent experience).
1. Dactylorhiza definitely, possibly fuschii.
2. Frog orchid (Coeloglossum viride) - this is the only one I'm really confident of.
3. Dactylorhiza probably, but there's something about the flowers that makes me think that it could be a hybrid. Do you have a close up of the flowers? - beautifully spotted leaves by the way.

Peter

[David Shaw]

Hi Peter, thanks for the Coeloglossum viride id - this is a new one for me and I see that it is just the same as yours from Pontresina.
Sorry, but I do not have a close ou of the Dactylorhizas. They were taken as snaps late in the afternoon as we were hurrying to catch the a beer before the last gondola went down!

[Peter Maguire]

we were hurrying to catch the a beer before the last gondola went down!

It's nice to know you have your priorities right!   

[hadacekf]

Lovely pictures David, I do mean the
Saxifraga oppositifolia is S. androsacea
Gentiana clusii  = G. acaulis
classic Soldanella pusilla in the snow is ok, but the close-up-view is  S. alpina
Primula halleri = P. farinosa

[David Shaw]

Franz
Thank you so much for your observations.
We had a lot of debate about the gentian. We went for G. clusii because the flowers had a lot of green within the cup and the guides pointed this way.
None of the primulas that we saw had any farinose on the leaves and that was our main reason for going with 'halleri'.
We saw both Soldanella pusilla and alpina, maybe I made a mistake with the postings.
Franz, we are still so sorry that we did not make our appointment to see you in June. Maybe another time, I hope.

[Paul T]

David,

Thank you for your wonderful postings in here.  This afternoon I've been catching up on the Travel/Plaecs to visit topic and the postings in the last fortnight here have been amazing.  Thanks to all for their contributions.  So many new things to see and learn about.