Negev Desert - Israel

[Miriam]

Beautiful Oron!!
Now I also have to go after you to the Negev 

[Gerhard Raschun]

Incredible, such colourful flowers in this try area. 

I`m surprised to see the pict of Eminium spicatum. It should be distributed to the south to Egypt, but very rare. One more happy reason for your wonderful trip are the seeds on Biarum !

Many thanks for showing these unique picts !!!

[Rafa]

S U P E R B!!

[cohan]

thanks for this thread!
you know, its no surprise to me to see wonderful plants in the desert, since i have a long love and fascination for deserts and their plants, but i have never seen plants from this region--i don't know why--if you watch a show about native people in southern u.s./mexican deserts, there will usually at least be some passing mention of desert plants, but in programs about israel/surrounding countries, they'd let you think nothing grows at all!
so many beauties, arums especially fascinating..
how cold is winter in this area?

[Richard Green]

Oron, your photos are great.  I just hope that something is still left to see when I visit Israel in early April - perhaps in the mountains?.

[Oron Peri]

What does the Cistanche parasitise?

Ashley,

It parasite different plants belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, often on Atriplex.

how cold is winter in this area?

Cohan
The highest mountains are about 1000m and night temperatures often go below zero during winter months, in a good year it might even get some snow .

[Oron Peri]

Oron, your photos are great.  I just hope that something is still left to see when I visit Israel in early April - perhaps in the mountains?.

Thanks Richard,

Early April is still a good time to see flowers here, in particular up in the mountains, consider that some species of  bulbous plants bloom about two months later than in lower altitudes.

[fermi de Sousa]

Wow! Oron!
Thanks for taking us with you to the desert! Some amazing plants here.
I especially like those astragalus plants.
cheers
fermi

[akoen]

Thanks for some lovely pictures of some beautiful flowers.

[Hans A.]

Great pics,thanks for sharing!
This desert is more floriferous I expected - visited it once about 20 years ago (April 1990) but except Capra nubiana I did not see any of those beauties.

[fleurbleue]

I didn't think there were so many plants in  Negev desert    And in addition, so pretty  Thanks Oron

[Eric Locke]

Great

Eric

[arillady]

Thanks so much Oron for this thread - so illuminating as to the plants that grow there. I will be checking back often on this particular thread.

[FrazerHenderson]

Orin,


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[Oron Peri]

Weather was not favoured for taking photos today, it is cloudy and hot, never the less i have decided go back to the Negev, this time the North Eastern and Eastern parts.

The N.E. receive more rain falls generally there for Fritillaria persica grows there in large quantities.
This form is also known as F. arabica, there is a big  variation in color and  shape of the flower.

Here are just a few samples going from white to very dark choclate color.