There have been so many beautiful spring flowers on show over the past week in Austira, I thought I would share them. Perhaps some other activators have some nice photos to add.
There are a few very similar species so difficult to identify it exactly from the photograph as the significant features are deep in the throat of the flower.
Hi folks,
I added the name of flowers i found with my app… I’m not a specialist.
There are SO MANY flowers actually…Some are endemic to Corsica.
It’s a joy to walk around and smell all these odors…
Thanks John for identifing it. I have seen it today at only about 800 m ASL and had no clue about the name. I have also not heard the the german name Rotes Waldvöglein – Wikipedia before.
It is on the red list in the northern pre-alps area. Great find because there were quite a decent number around Kienberg OE/OO-384
A more recent hike to OE/SB-357 - which was a true scenic highlight this year - showed us lots of flowers. To my best knowledge I can identify them as blue, purple and yellow cute thingies .
I grew a rhododendron hirsutum in my garden for many years until it expired in a drought while I was away camping, a charming plant, not as gaudy as many garden rhododendrons. It is unusually tolerant of alkaline soil for a rhododendron, being found in limestone areas, while its close relative rhododendron ferrugineum (looking identical to the untrained eye) needs acid soil and is never found on limestone.