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Haggeher Mountains
« on: August 26, 2007, 02:15:15 PM »
Just getting around to sorting out photographs of a trip taken in March this year. New to digital photgraphy and light was very intense but hopefully the pictures should give you some idea of the environment and its plants.

The Haggeher Mnts rise to about 1600m predominantly of peralkaline granite. Pinnacles and steeper slopes lack soli and vegetation. In shallow areas there is red fertile soil from the eroded granite.

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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2007, 02:35:58 PM »
Apologies, posted entry, in error, before I had completed the text and attached the pictures!

1. Haggeher Mountains
2. Hypericum fierense
3. Trichodesma scotti
4. Dracaena cinnabari
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2007, 03:02:21 PM »
A couple more shots of the mountains on the island of Socotra (which is located in the Arabian Sea some 380 kms south of Yemen and 240 east of Somalia)
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Re: Haggeher Mountains
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2007, 08:31:32 PM »
Hope you've got some more of these photos, Frazer, I'm enjoying this!
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Re: Haggeher Mountains
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2007, 08:50:19 PM »
Really amazing, Frazer; so many endemic plants here.  I second Maggi's request!
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2007, 08:22:27 AM »
I hadn't even heard of the existence of this mountain range ??? let alone the plants that grow there...
More please - always eager to learn.
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2007, 09:59:27 AM »
Wonderful Frazer - please show more!!!
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Re: Haggeher Mountains
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2007, 10:49:29 AM »
sorry about the very long link, but this referes to an RBGE publication about the area, which has around three hundred endemic species:

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:YyRmneq73icJ:www.rbge.org.uk/servlet/com.conceptinternet.editors.servlets.FileServer%3Ftype%3Dapplication/msword%26id%3D57%26d%3Drbge%26t%3Dpress_releases%26f%3Ddocument+Haggeher+Mountains&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk


and another long one:

http://web.mac.com/michael.scholl/iWeb/Michael%20Scholl/Blog/DF06D343-6377-4AE2-A437-1D60761CD57D.html

 to the blog of a marine scientist who has made trips in the area... some great photos here, too.There are a whole series of these blogs relating to the area... worth having a search through them.
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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2007, 10:25:05 PM »
A few more pictures from the Haggeher. I'm doing a short 10 minute talk "A walk in the Haggeher" at the Edinburgh SRGC Members' night on September 11 if you wish to see more.

1-4 Dracaena cinnabari
5 Boswellia dioscorides
6 Kalanchoe farinacea
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« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2007, 10:44:53 PM »
Some more on the slopes up Haggeher

1. Euphorbia arbuscula
2 Euphorbia arbuscula (in close up)
3 Dendrosicyos socotrana (only arborescent member of Curcucbitaceae - Socotran Cucumber Tree)
4 Exacum affine
5 Arthrocnemum macrostachyum (close to sea level)
6 Adenium obesum subsp. sokotranum (what a great, comical shape)
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2007, 11:23:06 PM »
Before you all get bored with this run of pictures here's soem shots of geology

1.Knife karst
2. pressured rock
3. pinnacles of Haggeher
4. Punica protopunica
5 and 6 Unknown beauty
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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2007, 11:32:15 PM »
What an amazing world....
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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2007, 07:46:55 AM »
The Adenium obesum subsp. sokotranum looks like a strange rodent
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Re: Haggeher Mountains
« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2007, 08:43:56 AM »
Frazer,
Never bored by such exciting pictures made in regions which are so interesting floristically.
Nice to see the ' Blaue Lieschen ' ( Blue Lizzy - Exacum affine) in the wild.
I hope you will receive an identification for the ' unknown blue '.

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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2007, 09:55:03 PM »
Well thanks a million for this collection of amazing plants from a strange and wonderful place. I asked (in the blue thread if that little plant could be an "alpine" given its Indian Ocean location, but obviously, yes, it could. I love the Adenium, almost cuddly, though perhaps not if it's really a rodent :D

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