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Apolonija26. 10. 2013 19:55:46

Otiv, thanks for the flowers and the little poem nasmeh

And I'm adding an autumn greeting too.

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velkavrh27. 10. 2013 18:26:13

This is my autumn greeting from the tour to Dovška Baba, Hruški vrh and Koprivnjak.

I will research which one it is. It is the common gentian. We recognize the Carniolan by the small number of fringes on the bract leaves. But it is similar in flower.

Definitely petoprstniki. The plant with green leaves overwinters under the snow blanket and develops young leaves before the snow melts.

This is a close-up of the petoprstnik flower. Usually at this time the golden petoprstnik also blooms. Its leaves resemble a palm with five fingers. I know it needs acidic soil to grow.

Only this small bellflower is still blooming. It is Scheuchzer's bellflower.

Same campanula. Recognized by narrow striate leaves and nodding flower. Quite common.

Koch's gentian surprises me. Recognized by sepals curled outward, well seen here.

Looked into its heart. By flower Clusius' and Koch's almost identical. Koch's usually flowers in Karawanks.

Is it or not spring gentian. I have twenty gentian species recorded, more don't grow here.

Many of them. Will be spring gentian. Know Triglav one well. Trieste doesn't grow here - subspecies of spring. Low gentian exists too, don't know it.

Also from thistle genus. Such clustered flowers marsh thistle has. Know it's spiny. Will check other photo, photographed many times. Thistles confused with Onopordum.

Similarly mossy gentianella not missing.

Apolonija28. 10. 2013 06:50:50

Brane, hello! I hope there will still be some autumn or autumn-winter greetings. You photographed a lot more flowers. Also the many-flowered blackhead on 16. (Naglavke are cowslips) Best regards

velkavrh28. 10. 2013 09:28:49

Good morning! I was mistaken about the blackhead - of course I know naglavke. What surprised me most was the find of Koch's gentian - recognized by green hornlets under the calyx turned outward. Flowers are identical to Clusius's gentian. But I really rummage all corners along paths and inspect rocks. I must come here when narcissi bloom. Haven't been here in narcissus time for decades. Only on Planina Suha a couple years ago when going to Vajnež I still caught them. Next tour somewhere in SKA during holidays. Of course now conquering midlands. L.P.

Apolonija29. 10. 2013 07:17:21

Also larches from Viševnik:

velkavrh3. 11. 2013 12:25:04

Now perhaps really the last observed mountain flowers of this autumn from the tour to Mokriška cave.

The very last flowers of the hairy bistort.

velkavrh23. 11. 2013 16:35:24

I had my computer out of order for more than a month and only now posting the promised contribution about murkas. All murkas photographed this year. Presenting Kamnik, red, Rhellikan's, Widder's. There should be moisture-loving one here too, but I don't know it.

We probably all know the Kamnik speedwell that grows in KSA. Below whitish, above pinkish. This one is from the top of Krvavec.

This Kamnik speedwell is from the Dolge njive pasture - one of the Krvavec area pastures.

In the Julians we more rarely find a similar speedwell to the Kamnik one. This is Widder's speedwell. This was found this year on Veliki Špič. This year I found it also on Velo polje pasture below Vodnikov dom.

On Veliki Špič we can surely also find the red murka.

Much more common in the Julians are the (black) rhellikanijeve murke. These are from Mahavšček.

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Apolonija26. 11. 2013 22:25:44

Brane, hello. Nice to look at murkas these days, thanks. Haven't heard of the moisture-loving one yet. These days I was just admiring our orchids here:

http://www.proteus.si/files/file/Tekmovanje/OS%202012-2013/Literatura/Orhideje%20Slovenije%20-%20Miha.pdf

velkavrh26. 11. 2013 22:57:34

According to Mr. Kocjan, the scarlet-red murka-Nigritella hygrophila -same as Mr. Peter calls it-hygrophilous. The red one is now to be called bicolored. They are very similar, so possible that I've already seen scarlet or hygrophilous.

Apolonija28. 11. 2013 12:25:10

You are right. I looked more closely again. The Nigritella society also wrote:

"..Although already before 1990 he wrote (V. Ravnik) about the „scarlet-red taxon“ from the genus murkas, he never described it later, so the species was newly declared only this year, when Wolfram Foelsche and Ulrich Heidtke described it under the name Nigritella hygrophila. According to them, it grows in eastern Dolomites and Julian Alps and Karawanks, largely summarizing Vlado Ravnik's findings.

velkavrh30. 11. 2013 07:23:07

Yesterday I was reviewing edelweiss, which are our quite common white flowers that we encounter everywhere on our mountain paths from spring to autumn. There are supposed to be around twenty species. Most commonly we certainly encounter Carinthian edelweiss. Around Triglav we see whole plantations of single-flowered edelweiss, high in the rocks of KSA nice clusters of rock edelweiss. Toga should also be common. Lower we might find clustered, cold and Tenore's, which is a subspecies of small-flowered.

Everywhere we certainly see Carinthian houseleek. It grows most readily on screes and rock fissures.

Characteristic for them are prostrate stems - these are from Krvavec this year in mid-June.

Higher on the path from the top of Kalški greben to Kalška gora we find these beautiful tufts of rock houseleek.

Here we also find similarly growing smiljke with slightly different flowers. They also grow in rock crevices - the flowers are not so compact. I cannot identify them exactly.

Around Orožnova koča on the planina pod Liscem, most likely according to Hoppe, njivska smiljka - Cerastium arvense grows. It grows mainly on pastures. It is of erect growth with narrow leaves.

velkavrh30. 11. 2013 08:22:27

To color a bit that whiteness of edelweiss, a short contribution about our lilies. In the Alps and Karawanks we'll meet only three species: Carniolan, Turkish and budded. I also saw budded this year under Klagenfurt hut, but no picture.

End of June below Stari Ljubelj I found a huge number of kranjske lilije in all stages of growth.

One among them was also yellowish. For the first time I found one like that. Ravnik writes in his handbook that they really occur.

This is already the flower of the turška lilija, which is also common.

Apolonija30. 11. 2013 13:10:38

Beautiful are our lilies. Let me add some more, including the budded one. Best regards.

velkavrh21. 12. 2013 11:19:06

On hikes in the mid-mountains, on pastures, in forests we meet several different bellflowers. Many grow in valleys too. Above timberline we find only silver bellflower - Black soil.

Beautiful is the blue of the woodland hepatica.

Around home we will surely recognize the rust-red hepatica.

In mid-mountains on pastures we find meadow hepatica, similar to rust-red but gently blue.

Blood-red hepatica we find already on forest paths in lowlands.

Pigeon or Pyrenean hepatica we often mix up. Not sure which. Large stand in my home village.

Queen of hepaticas is of course silver hepatica.

Every year I go to admire silver hepatica on Črna prst.

Apolonija25. 12. 2013 18:28:38

Brane, hello. I also greatly admire the silver bellflower. But on picture 5 it's not dove's, look at the leaves and you'll see. Best regards.

velkavrh12. 01. 2014 10:46:40

We haven't had a real winter yet, but we're already seeing quite a few spring flowers.

Common daisy has been blooming for some time.

Black hellebore can already be found in every forest for some time. On meadows we can also find blooming ramsons.

otiv16. 01. 2014 07:51:18

The crocus has bloomed,
without having experienced winter.
The hazel has turned yellow,
has spread its "sausages".
Snowdrops have peeked out into the open,
now waiting for possible snow.
Trumpets are also awakening,
arousing our attention.
Birds are spring-like cheerful,
too warm weather brings everything out into the open,
only fear the frost,
as winter often has two faces. nasmeh

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cico16. 01. 2014 11:45:00

@otiv, legend!! velik nasmeh

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otiv16. 01. 2014 13:04:29

@cico, a few verses for amusement, so the computer ink doesn't dry. velik nasmeh

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cico16. 01. 2014 16:44:46

Your song is spot on,
our nature is unpredictable,
you nailed the weather,
then more snow will pile on us,
so we'll stay home,
and read the Hribi.net portal! jezik