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!




August 13, 2012

White Lace Flower


Here are the typical fruits of an umbellifer. They are ovals, more or less elangated and split up in two parts, each containing a seed. In the picture below the fruit is covered with white hairs that stiffen when the seed ripens. The pink protrusions are the remnants of pistils, two in every single flower.



They are the fruits of a White Lace Flower (Orlaya grandiflora).


















It flowered in June on a poor and dry soil, and it looked like, well, lace.