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This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.
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I posted some pidctures of this rare plant before, this is another closeup.
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This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.
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A nice tiny annual of semideserts.
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Campanula rapunculus is a nice East Mediterranean perennial. In Israel it is rather common, blooming mainly during April. The flowers are upright, unlike the similar European Campanula rapunculoides with pending flowers. This one was found at the edge of typical Mediterranean oak scrub in the Upper Galilee, 1000m.
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Campanula sidoniensis is a least known rare annual, found in Lebanon and N Israel.
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Campanula sidoniensis is a least known rare annual, found in Lebanon and N Israel.
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Campanula stricta is a common perennial growing in dry rocky mountain slopes from Turkey to N Israel. The Labanese variety (var. libanotica) occurs in Lebanon, Syria and Israel. It is a creeping to ascending plant, blooming in June-July. The harsh mountain sun made my picture very flat and almost burnt. I worked on the raw file and corrected it a bit.
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We found lots of these bell flowers above the village of Kazbegi, the grew both in cliffs and in grasse slopes.
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this is a lovely perennial belll-flower, endemic to the area in NE Turkey. Locally it is very common, blooming in June.
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one of the common small plants of the region. It was already almost dark, and the ring flash rescued me.Look at the flowers tops, the pollen is pushed out just like toothpaste.
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"Most Carlina species bloom in summer. In Hebrew the plant's name neams ""summery"". Most species have yellow flowers, Carlina lanata has unusual pinkish ligule flowers."
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Carlina racemosa is a small summer thistle, it is very rare and endangered in Israel.
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Carlina racemosa is a small summer thistle, it is very rare and endangered in Israel.
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and another angle ... Carlina racemosa is a small summer thistle, it is very rare and endangered in Israel.
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This is one of the few thstles around Lake sevan.
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This beautiful thistle is endemic to Morocco and Algeria.
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This is the progenitor of the safflower that is grown in early summer for its seed oil in the Mediterranean and arid Asian regions. The cultivated saffron is used for dyes, edible oil as well as for cheap sabstitute for saffron and for pruduction of insulin. But it all started in this native spiny weed - Carthamus persicus. Growing in the arid Middle East. In Israel it is rather rare in the Negev Desert.
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This is what happens after a year in the dry desert.
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A nice plant from last year, hopefully new ones will germinate this year.
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Carthamus persicus is a desert annual thistle. It is the progenitor of cultivated safflower.
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Centaurea aegyptiaca is one of the commonest desert centaureas in Israel. It has typical dark inflorescence spines and hairy web.
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Centaurea ammocyanus is a tiny creeping annual with lovely flwoering heads. Here u can see one. In Israel it is confined to the higher-colder parts of the Negev Desert.
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Two days ago I posted a closeup, this time u can the whole plant. Centaurea ammocyanus is a shy creeping annual with lovely flwoering heads. In Israel it is confined to the higher-colder parts of the Negev Desert.