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Many years ago I hiked the same route on the Peloponesse of Greece as Constantine Goulimis (1886-1963) a decade or so earlier, although I went from west to east, from Areopolis to Gytheio. Quite probably I saw this beautiful crocus near Vachos... but with too little knowledge I had no idea it was 'special'.
Our crocus was named for Dr Goulimis by William Bertram Turrill (1890-1961) in 1955. Here it is in full Autumn flower in the Hortus Botanicus of Amsterdam.
Hierba en avenida del Mediterráneo.
Suena "In Paradisum" de la Misa de Requiem op. 48, de Gabriel Fauré, con la Orquesta y Coro de RTVE:
In these pages I've mentioned the intrepid Catholic Missionaries to China who were also avid zoologists and botanists (e.g. www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/17118385195/in/photoli...). Many of their finds were sent to France and fell into the hands of the great taxonomist Adrien René Franchet (1834-1900). I don't know whether this particular plant from Tibet was collected by Abbé Pierrre Armand David (1826-1900) many of whose finds were meticulously studied by Franchet. I do know it was first described by him in 1888 and published with a nice drawing.
Recently the great Amsterdam zoo ARTIS was also gazetted as a Botanical Garden, much to my joy! It always had many plants and flowerss, but now lots of them have been signposted as well (not this one, though, which is presumable a cultivar). It's wonderful to be able to alternate between the Hortus and the Zoo, only a couple of hundred metres away from each other.
The Zoo, of course, has many caged animals, but there are 'free in the air' ones as well. Here's a Honeybee scrounging for the last Autumn Nectar. She's on a Sage and flower's nectar is apparently not very accessible for her from the inside. So she's loading up from its backside between the sepals and the corolla, where there's nectar-seepage, or perhaps she's cutting into it.
It was very wet - see the raindrop - but a bit of Sunlight was all Honeybee needed for her expedition.
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
The system garden is about the layout of the plant kingdom. It was first created in this form in 2005: a series of five beds with the first major steps in the evolution of plants, and then 27 beds with the evolution of the flower plants
La falaise de l'Hortus qui fait face à l'arrière du Pic Saint-Loup. The Hortus cliff facing the rear of Pic Saint Loup
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Lieden, Rapenburg, Hortus Botanicus. Hothouse, Tropical plants
'De Hortus' is the oldest botanical garden of the Neherlands-- foudend in 1590 by Carolus Clusius. Website: here.
It's been a while since i posted Hortus pics, the last time was some 13 years ago: here, here and here.
Rapeseed, entirely yellow fields, and lots of Cabbage Whites. But here our White is resting and gathering energy from the Sun on another Yellow. This Tulip belongs to the Triumph Group, one of gardeners' favorite bulbs. There's a nice bed of them in full flower now in our Hortus.
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The Hortus now in late Autumn hasn't many flowering plants, but among these is this Cat's Tail. That common English name is applied specifically to Hebenstretia dura, but is suited, too, for our 'dentata', toothed, Hebenstretia. For a detailed photo of a single flower: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/42882117720/in/photoli....
When a bit of sunlight warmed the flowers up yesterday, our Hebenstretia was soon visited by lots of Hoverflies still out in the chilly weather. Marmalade Hoverfly is one of my favorites. It goes by quite a few common names among them in Dutch the 'snor' (mustache) and the 'pyjama' Hoverfly. The 'mustaches' are evident from the beastie's markings; and the 'pyjama' reminds me of my own PJs as a young boy except that they were blue. The Latin 'balteatus', of course, means something like 'belted', and that's good descriptively as well. And its color is truly that of marmalade.
It was once thought that Hoverflies have very strong jaws able to grind down those hard pollen grains into suitable proteins. Since then it has been found that their process of digestion doesn't include grinding. Rather, Hoverfly produces enzymes which seep into the pollen grains through their pores. They dissolve what foodstuffs are needed which are then drawn out. The now empty shells are then evacuated. So no teeth or molars are required. Just an intricate biochemical process.
This agave plant resides at De Hortus in Amsterdam. Said to be forty years old, the bloom is also the death of the plant. www.dehortus.nl/?lang=en
Hortus botanical gardens , Martin’s photographs , Amsterdam , North Holland , the Netherlands , June 5. 2023
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