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Galanthus nivalis
Snowdrop
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0317 1105 (2017-03-12)Copyright © 2017 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Mar 7, 2017
latitude 46.34398 longitude 13.57456
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Bovec basin, northeast part, near First World War cemetery, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: navadni mali zvonček - Habitat: broad leaved wood, slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect, relatively warm and humid place, mostly in shade (after tree leaves develop); cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock; elevation 445 m (1.460 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comment: Year after year I cannot resist photographing this very common but also very beautiful plant. It grows in fields of hundreds and thousands flowers here around. With its tenderness, freshness and elegant simplicity one cannot imagine a better symbol and promise of coming spring time. Its beauty seems to me a derision and revolt against the basic physical law of all material - entropy. What a surplus over bare biological functionality no matter how complex it may be! What an unreasonable abundance and richness is conveyed in these flower fields! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1071. (2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 745. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1080.camera Sony a6000 / T* Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar E 16-70 mm F4
contributor's ID # Bot_1036/2017_DSC00236 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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