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!




April 20, 2014

Exhibition

 

 

Exhibition 

"Photographies d'une naturaliste" 

from 2 May until 14 June 2014

 


In gallery Phi2 in Villamblard about thirty of my pictures are on show.
You'll find macro's, plant pictures and also some landscapes.
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Opening hours gallery: Friday and Saturday 10h-12h et 15h-18h, at all other times, please contact 06 82 81 13 74 (english spoken).
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 55 rue Gabriel Reymond
24140 Villamblard
Tel : 06 82 81 13 74










April 9, 2014

Violet Limodore


Strange purple asparaguses grow out of the soil. You find them in a dry oakwood with sparse trees, on dry calcareous soil, or even in a truffle orchard. What is it? A wild orchid, the Violet Limodore  (Limodorum abortivum).











From its underground rhizome new sprouts emerge. In a few weeks they will make large circles of deepn purple stalks carrying big purple flowers.




The flowers only open in really good weather. On dark and rainy days they do not open at all. Often the plant is cleistogamous, it pollinizes itself with its own pollen before the opening of the flowers. Sometimes the Violet Limodore makes flowers that don't even get above ground and never see daylight.
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