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Flowers of the Pyrenees – Flora Pyrenaica VI, Saxifraga – the Stonebreakers!
My last post on this subject is dedicated to a few flowers of the genus Saxifraga, literally translatable from Latin as ‘stone-breaker’ and commonly known in English as Saxifrage or Rockfoil. There is some debate as to the sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, flora, Mountain, Nature
Tagged Alpine Saxifrage, Benasque Valley, Musky Saxifrage, nature, Pirineos, Purple Mountain Saxifrage, Purple Saxifrage, Pyrenees, rockfoil, Saxifraga moschata, Saxifraga oppositifolia, Saxifraga paniculata, saxifrage, Valle de Benasque, White Mountain Saxifrage
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Flowers of the Pyrenees – Flora Pyrenaica V, Purplish-Pinky-Violet..!
The ‘colour’ of a flower is sometimes not so easy to define, either because it combines two or more colours or because the colour varies across a certain spectrum or because our words to describe colour fall short. For example, … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, flora, Mountain, Nature
Tagged Aster alpinus, Benasque Valley, Erigeron uniflorus, Lilium martagon, nature, Pirineos, Pyrenees, Valle de Benasque
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Flowers of the Pyrenees – Flora Pyrenaica IV, White
White flowers some may find a bit less spectacular than others, but they are nonetheless beautiful too. And among their number we have some of the most highly prized of all alpine flowers. Whatever you opine as to the beauty … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, flora, Mountain, Nature
Tagged Astrantia major, étoile des glaciers, Benasque Valley, Dryas octopetala, Edelweiss, el lirio blanco, flor de las nieves, Gypsophila repens, Iris latifolia, Leontopodium alpinum, Pirineos, Pyrenees, stella alpina, Valle de Benasque
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Flowers of the Pyrenees – Flora Pyrenaica III, Yellow
Yellow, countless wildflowers bloom in this colour..well, surely botanists have counted them, but i haven’t. Just looking thru the lists of Flora Pyrenaica there are hundreds. Here are a few.. Lilium pyrenaicum, known in English as Pyrenean Lily, Yellow Martagon … Continue reading
Flowers of the Pyrenees – Flora Pyrenaica I, Blue
The natural phenomenon that is Pyrenees, tectonic collision by-product, geological immensity, inexhaustible mountain range that separates Iberia from the rest of Europe.. And just that same central chunk that i have already visited so many times.. and still so many … Continue reading
Sizzling Summer
Summer has arrived. And how? Sweating, sweltering, sizzling,.. superhot. Here in the center of Spain we’ve been suffering a two-week heatwave that started on the 10th of June and is set to continue several days yet. It’s been the hottest … Continue reading
Natural disaster
Monsters stalk the surface of our planet. And i’m not talking about Jurassic theropods or hungry polar bears or Gothic vampires..or even 21st century serial killers. Sometimes we tend to look upon horror figures of the past century like Stalin, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, fauna, Nature
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