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Hans J

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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2010, 02:44:40 PM »
Our last walking on Zakinthos was the highest top of the Mt. Vrachionas ( 756m)
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2010, 02:51:29 PM »
After some days we decide to leave Zakinthos and go to Kephallonia ...we start early in the morning to Ag. Nicolaos and wait for the ferry boat ....after some time comes a guy from costal gard and tells us : the ship does not operate today ....because the wether ....
We could this not understand because the weather looks fine .....so we decide to drive back to Zakinthos town ....from the goes a ferry boat to the mainland ( Kylinni ) .....and from Kylinni later a other boat to Kephallonia ....we tried this way and all goes well  ;D
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2010, 03:06:09 PM »
Nice photos Hans.

Your Colchicum 1+2 seem to be C. cupanii (dark anthers, broad leaves)
3+4 could be C. parlatoris if the corms are not stoloniferous
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2010, 03:10:35 PM »
Thank you Thomas  ;D

Thank you for the Colchicum ID ....I did not know that you are also a specialist for Colchicum  :o

It is also interesting to see your pics from Peleponnes ....many remeberings rise up on my last trip there in year 2000 ...

It is a nice surprise that you also found this Campanula ....I found the same plants on Kephallonia ....and now I know the name  ;D
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2010, 03:13:47 PM »
Here we are now for a short stop on the port of Kylinni :

and some hours later on Kephallonia - on port of Poros :
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2010, 03:19:04 PM »
We had to drive late in the evening now to our new home - a vineyard near Lourdata  8)

This location is direct near the sea ( with a private acsess to the beach ) on the feets of Mt. Enos - the highest mountain of this island ( more than 1600 m )
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2010, 03:23:06 PM »
A lot of you will know the name Kephallonica from the endemic Abies cephalonica which only grow on this island - thats beautiful plants  :D
our first first trip was to see this trees ....
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2010, 03:26:22 PM »
Since I have seen the movie 'Corellis Mandoline' I would see this island ....
here are some pics of Argostoli ( maybe some will remeber on the movie )
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2010, 03:28:22 PM »
a other small beautiful village is Assos -with a small harbour and a castell
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2010, 03:31:24 PM »
ALso on this island we found several habitats of Acis ionica - one very interesting was direct near the sea ( sealevel 5 m )
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #25 on: November 04, 2010, 03:33:50 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on November 04, 2010, 02:32:20 PM
Now some pics of Narcissus - for Gerd and the other Narcissus enthusiants  :P
I suppose thats are Nar. miniatus ...I'm right ?

Thank you, Hans! These are relatively large flowering forms. The colour of the corona at first made me nervous but pics of the tube show clearly miniatus shape.

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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2010, 03:35:59 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on November 04, 2010, 03:10:35 PM
Thank you Thomas  ;D

Thank you for the Colchicum ID ....I did not know that you are also a specialist for Colchicum  :o

It is also interesting to see your pics from Peleponnes ....many remeberings rise up on my last trip there in year 2000 ...

It is a nice surprise that you also found this Campanula ....I found the same plants on Kephallonia ....and now I know the name  ;D

Hans I'm not a specialist in Colchicums, but I always had a pleasure for the small flowering forms. The problem was simply the lack of useful reference books for this genus and now I finally have one: 'Bulbs of Greece' by Christopher Grey-Wilson.
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2010, 03:36:38 PM »
a other habitat was in a shady gorge -here grows the Acis together with Campanula versicolor ( thanks the topic from Thomas I know the name ) ....interesting that here grows the same plants as on the Taigetos Mts.  ....
« Last Edit: November 04, 2010, 03:38:47 PM by Hans J »
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #28 on: November 04, 2010, 03:41:32 PM »
one of the most pictured beaches of Greece is the famos Myrthos beach ....we had not so luck with the weather on this day ...but it looks still fine  8)
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Re: Ionian islands October 2010
« Reply #29 on: November 04, 2010, 03:45:54 PM »
In the description of Acis is only reportet from plants near sealevel until 250 m .....but I had the luck to find a popuation on a altitude of 650 m .....so it could be that this plants are much hardier than the lowland forms  :)
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