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!




December 28, 2011

Common Tamarisk-moss


Winter is the time to look for mosses, now they show their beauty. For most of them you need a magnifying glass, but this one is rather large. The leaves of the Common Tamarisk-moss (Thuidium tamariscinum) are several centimeters long and are easy to recognize. They are flattened, and look like miniature fern fronds.



December hoarfrost gives everything that covers the wood floor, mosses and also the leaves of English Yvy (Hedera helix) a distinctive silver rim.