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My Easter holiday in the Alps couldn’t have been better! Hikes, good weather and family time, just what I needed! ☀️
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Euphrasia alpina (Alpine Eyebright)
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Edelweiss
Leontopodium alpinum
Unmistakable emblem of the Alpine flora.
Over the last two centuries edelweiss was picked in vast quantities, to the extent that it was almost exterminated. In its natural surroundings it is quite abundant. It grows on sunny calcareous slopes up to 3000 m altitude. The flowers are small and yellowish-white, growing in a cluster, surrounded by conspicuous large woolly, white bracts which give the flowerhead its unmistakable star shape.
Ibex
Who can imagine nowadays that the ibex was once regarded as a wandering medicine chest, hence its extermination?
By 1650, the ibex had been exterminated in Graubünden. Its lack of fear of human beings, and the medicinal properties attributed to its flesh and horns, were its undoing. At the beginning of the 20th century, two of the last remaining ibex were poached from a herd belonging to the Italian king Vittorio Emmanuele III and smuggled into Switzerland where the Peter & Paul Wildlife Park set up a breeding station, unique in the world. In 1920 the first ibex bred from this pair were released in the National Park. Nowadays around 300 ibex live in the National Park.
The word for ibex in Romansch is «macun» and there are indeed ibex living in the region called Macun situated above Lavin – hence its name. Since 1 August 2000 the ibex in that region are also inhabitants of the National Park.
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Edelweiss
Leontopodium alpinum
Unmistakable emblem of the Alpine flora.
Over the last two centuries edelweiss was picked in vast quantities, to the extent that it was almost exterminated. In its natural surroundings it is quite abundant. It grows on sunny calcareous slopes up to 3000 m altitude. The flowers are small and yellowish-white, growing in a cluster, surrounded by conspicuous large woolly, white bracts which give the flowerhead its unmistakable star shape.
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Edelweiss
Leontopodium alpinum
Unmistakable emblem of the Alpine flora.
Over the last two centuries edelweiss was picked in vast quantities, to the extent that it was almost exterminated. In its natural surroundings it is quite abundant. It grows on sunny calcareous slopes up to 3000 m altitude. The flowers are small and yellowish-white, growing in a cluster, surrounded by conspicuous large woolly, white bracts which give the flowerhead its unmistakable star shape.