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| velkavrh30. 11. 2014 09:30:53 |
On this gloomy, gray, foggy morning I'm rambling about our primroses or primulas, as is their Latin name.
Ten species grow in the wild here. One species has three subspecies. We could divide them into yellow-colored and violet-colored.
Who doesn't know our cowslip, which sometimes precedes spring and we already find it now. It's called stemless or common primrose. Then throughout the mid-mountains and also high mountains we encounter two similar species. These are tall primrose and spring primrose, which are quite similar and a novice mixes them up. Spring primrose occurs in three subspecies - common spring primrose, grayish spring primrose and white-mealy spring primrose. The most common is common spring primrose. White-mealy has different leaves. I still can't distinguish them somehow. But we all know auricula or beautiful primrose. This year I found it almost on all spring hikes, whether Kališče, Kriška gora or Zelenica.
Then we go to violet-colored ones. The most common is Wulfen's primrose, found in mid-mountains usually on pastures. Usually accompanied by spring primrose. We've already seen marshy and long-flowering ones. Different habitat for smallest primrose and hairy primrose. They grow only on volcanic rocks - hairy only on Smrekovško pogorje. We have Trnovo primrose and Carniolan primrose - endemic to Notranjska. A specialty is Idrija primrose, a hybrid between Carniolan and beautiful one with delicate pink color. Except Wulfen's, long-flowering and marshy, I haven't seen other violet-colored ones in nature.
Outside Slovenian mountains many other primroses grow. I've seen only gorgeous one - above Planina Pekol in Italy. Similar to Wulfen's.
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| Apolonija30. 11. 2014 16:14:46 |
Brane, you nicely showed and described the primulas, bravo. More details in http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/59449/in
http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/60018/, if anyone is interested.
I would really like to see the Idrija one. Since it's a hybrid between auricula (which is yellow) and Carniolan (which is pink), the offspring (Idrija primrose) can have very different color shades. Depending on how many and which traits they inherit from parents.
Regards
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| zlatica1. 12. 2014 07:51:38 |
Primulas are really interesting. Of course, the most familiar to me is auricula and Wulfen's primrose, which I admire every year on the path to Preval and V. planina. When reading the above info on primulas now, I remembered one I caught this year with the camera in front of Vodnikov dom and I think it's tall primrose. Before I didn't even wonder what sort it is. Well, attaching the pic so you can judge if that's it. and some others
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| Apolonija1. 12. 2014 10:35:38 |
Zlatica, I think your assessment is correct. Have a nice day, even though it's gloomy here.
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| otiv1. 12. 2014 11:19:09 |
Nice to see the auricula flower,
which paints the rocky world yellow.
Who wouldn't recognize it,
when in May it laughs at us from the rocks.
Truly beautiful this mountain flower is,
at sight of it your heart dances. 
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| miri1. 12. 2014 12:00:00 |
@otiv, in this weather you can write poems in reserve.
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| otiv1. 12. 2014 12:09:41 |
Exactly so Miri. The current weather is really lousy,  as they say and there's more than enough time for other activities.
Regards
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| miri1. 12. 2014 13:27:41 |
@otiv, do you have gear for "other activities"?, if not, call.
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| Apolonija1. 12. 2014 21:22:17 |
Some more botanical primroses:
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| zlatica2. 12. 2014 09:57:10 |
Yes, Apolonija, you have primroses of all colors in your garden. So many different flowers on it that you could organize some guided tours at different times of the year. But at home in my rock garden the little flowers brought from mountains give me lots of joy, although I sometimes sin with that,(since some are protected too) but I console myself that I take good care of them at home. Every year when they bloom, I rejoice over them endlessly.
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| Apolonija2. 12. 2014 14:08:16 |
Zlatica, really nice photos. I see you must have a really nice rock garden and the grass is nice too. Don't boast too much where you got the little flowers from, because all except primrose....
On Sedmica it's probably pale orchid. Elder orchid has red-spotted honey lip, spurs pointing down. Pale one smells of elder too. Judge yourself when it blooms again which one it is.
Tour? We'll see what will be left by spring. This year has devastated my garden quite a bit. Regards
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| zlatica2. 12. 2014 19:54:53 |
You're right, Apolonija, about everything. But I found another photo of this orchid that I took when I found it and it's more visible what it looks like, so maybe you can identify it more easily on this basis, because I unfortunately have no idea which part of the flower the spurs are. 
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| velkavrh6. 12. 2014 13:57:45 |
I don't like this grayness of Saturday, so I like to brighten it up with this year's photos of mountain gentians.
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| zlatica6. 12. 2014 18:19:20 |
Brane, you nicely brightened the day's grayness. All little flowers are known to me, just not quite sure about the last one. Is it perhaps spotted-flowered orchid? Where did you find it?
cheers
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| velkavrh6. 12. 2014 20:16:06 |
Identification for the orchid is correct. It is found more rarely. This one is from my hike this year to Klek in Croatia. A year ago I found it also on Krvavec.
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| velkavrh7. 12. 2014 12:09:19 |
Apolonija, yes indeed! On this tour I saw many flowers that we also find in our Alps and some that don't grow here. This time I'm offering some in blue and purple tones. I'm preparing a selection of little flowers that I identified for the first time this year. Unfortunately there are few, because my season ended already on July 12th.
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| mirjam677. 12. 2014 19:28:31 |
Today I'd like to show you the spiny goosefoot, a plant that grows on the Primorska coast. I like it a lot as it looks like a little Christmas tree. Some plants are without red balls, some have a few, you also find ones with 20 balls. I photographed some of these today for you.
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| Apolonija7. 12. 2014 20:34:24 |
Mirjam, this goosefoot is really nice. On Polhograjska Grmada I saw the broad-leaved one. Both are protected. Lp
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