Recent trip to Bhutan

[ian mcenery]

Thought you might like to see some pictures from my recent trip to Bhutan with some AGS friends
everest
 airport-paro
 rhod-cinnabarinum
 rhod-cinnabarinum-shrub
 arisaema-griffithii
 rhod.-triflorum

[ian mcenery]

Just a few more to keep you going
 market
 primula
 p-calderiana-ssp-strumosa1
 prim-calderiana-ssp-strumosa
 primula-griffithii
 prim-griff-in-bulk

[Maggi Young]

I thought you had been a bit quiet lately, Ian... now we know why! Looks like another great trip... fab pix... I will patiently await any and all others you care to share here! Great colour on the R. cinnabarinum...you could never miss that, could you? And how super are those primulas? Fantastic! Thanks!

[Paddy Tobin]

Ian,

R. cinnabarinum and P. griffithii are simply stunningly coloured plants. Great to see these, wonderful photographs. But come on now, you must have taken many many more and I would certainly like to see some - when you are ready.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

This trip was mostly 2 separate treks with time spent at altitudes mostly between 3600 and 4200 metres. Surprising how high some of the Rhodos were growing. We found about 14 different species - not all in flower. Here are a few more plants the Meconopsis shows single plants and the photo following shows them in bulk - they are the golden spots in the grass. These were at about 4200 m. Also views of the famous Tigers nest monastery where we also found flowers. Can anyone identify the anemone?

meconopsis -paniculata
 mec-in-situ.
 acer-griseum
 tak-sung-monastery-tigers-nest
 tiger1.
 bryocarpum-himalayaicum
 anemone

[Paddy Tobin]

Now that is what I call a quick response, Ian.

Another wonderful selection of photographs. That monastery is in an incredible situation. Perhaps the first abbot had very unpleasany  in-laws.

The anemone in the last photograph is fabulous as it the previous photograph of bryocarpum hima. Both are completely new to me.

Many thanks for these photographs.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Fantastic shots. Must have been a wonderful trip.

[ian mcenery]

As I took rather a lot of photos I'm sorry there are more still more and it takes a long time to alter the photos for the site. I'm tired now so off to bed.

Interested to know if anyone can identify picture 3

home-sweet-home
 rhodo-arboreum
 question-what-is-it
 4200m-looking-up-at6am
 rhodo-thomsonii1
 rhodo-thomsonii-variety
 anemone-obtusiloba-maybe1.
 anemone-obtusiloba-maybe2
 anemone-obtusiloba-maybe

[Lesley Cox]

Super pictures Ian, let's have some more please.

How long did it take you to climb Mt Everest?

Well obviously, the yellow no 3 pic has to be an erythronium just about to open; the form called var. veryfineuprightifolium

[Lesley Cox]

The Bryocarpum has been on my wants list for at least 40 years, ever since a black and white photo in a very old AGS Bulletin. It's a primula relative. I always thought it was purple. I'm surprised to see the yellow, but then how do you tell from a b and w photo?

[David Nicholson]

MAGNIFICANT, more please Ian, what a cracking picture of Everest

[Ian Minty]

Excellent pics, Ian.
The pics of the anemones, primulas were stunning.
The yellow one looks a bit like a  yellow version of a white sissyrincchium douglassi that I had.
I would love to see all that meconopsis in flower.

[Ian Y]

Wonderful pictures Ian what a lovely trip you have had and are now sharing with us.
I suspect your pic 3 is a Lloydia.

[Ian Minty]

What type of anemone is the pink one.
I would love one of those?

[ian mcenery]

Thanks for all your kind comments

Lesley when I first found the Bryocarpum it was not in flower and I thought I had found a Omphalogramma. Our Bhutanese guide called the plant Bhutanese spinach though there did not seem enough about to make a meal

Ian Y can you speculate on which Lloydia?

If anyone can sghed light on some of our finds it would be useful

Here are a few more

podophyllum-hexandrum
 sonam-our-guide
 trillidium-govanianum
 rhodo-anthopogon1
 rosa-sericea
 cassiope-fastigiata