The flora of Périgord in South-West France is abundant and diverse. In this blog you can find, in pictures, brief encounters with several hundreds of wild flowers and plants as they grow here in French Perigord. Following the seasons other species are added. An index of scientific and English names you find below on the right.

Corine Oosterlee is a botanist and photographer and she offers guided Botanical Walks and other activities around plants and vegetation in nature in Perigord. Do you want to know more? On www.baladebotanique.fr you can find more information. For Corine's photography see www.corineoosterlee.com. Both websites also in English.

Enjoy!




March 8, 2010

Common Alder


The Common Alder (Alnus glutinosa) only grows on marshy ground. Often, in a valley, a ribbon of trees marks the course of a streamlet.



In winter tree fellers leave piles of trunks in their wake. Those of the Common alder are easy to recognize by their clear orange colour.
















Soon the tree will flower, but now only last year's female catkins are visible, they look like small black pine cones. The new male catkins are already growing longer, getting ready for things to come.