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posted: July 31st, 2010 |
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This page continues our adventure of July 9th - a trip to Oze National Park - starting at 2:39 PM. This page completes July 9th and takes you through 11:35 AM on July 10th - attaining the summit of Mt. Shibutsu (2,228 meters = 7,310 feet). Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| July 9th Continues From Page 1 (at 2:39 PM) |
It's still 2:38 PM on July 9th. Here is a photo of a pond and then one of lots of Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) and the boardwalk. The 3rd shot is 3 shots Fused into 1 image with Photomatix Pro 3.2. It is Wild Iris (Iris laevigata) & Mt. Hiuchigatake. By the way, that link to last month's web page referred to on the previous page is HERE in case you want it.
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Here is where we stopped for lunch - it's now 2:42 PM, kind of a late lunch. The 2nd shot is Drosera anglica, a very long and skinny leaved type of Sundew Plant. Later on you will see a shot of Drosera rotundifolia - the round-leaved type. The 3rd shot is Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) & Wild Iris (Iris laevigata). There was so much Cottongrass and also so much of this Iris that we just kept snapping photos. We each ended up with over 1,000 photos from the 3 days of this trip.
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The first shot here shows lots of Iris (Iris laevigata) & Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) again and the reddish colored plant is Drosera sp. The 2nd shot is Vaccinium oxycoccos - Cranberry. In the 3rd shot all of the red-shaded plants are Drosera sp. (Sundew).
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Here is another shot which shows lots of Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) and off in the distance - birch trees. The 2nd shot is the round-leaved type of Sundew - Drosera rotundifolia. The 3rd shot --- more Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum).
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Here is a shot with a beautiful Wild Iris (Iris laevigata) and Cottongrass. The 2nd shot is the boardwalk & Mt. Hiuchigatake. The 3rd shot is a nice shot of Aquilegia sp. The weather is now misty and dark, so this photo was taken with flash.
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After that it started raining pretty heavily and we headed back to our tent site and didn't take any more pictures. By the time we got back to the tent site the rain had stopped. We took a walk around a short loop trail and these final 2 shots of the day were taken around 5:30 PM. The first shot is Hemerocallis dumortieri var. esculenta aka Hemerocallis middendorffii var. esculenta (Foreground) & some Rhododendron molle subsp. japonicum (Background). The final shot shows the seed heads of Caltha palustris var. nipponica - you saw the bright yellow flowers of this plant in last month's pages from Oze.
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It rained pretty hard most of the night. We got up at around 4:30 AM today and it had stopped, but there was still lots of moisture dripping from the trees. We prepared and ate our breakfast and started climbing Mt. Shibutsu at around 6:00 AM. The first photo here - a Leontopodium japonicum var. shiroumense - a type of Edelweiss - was taken at 6:48 AM, just above tree-line. The 2nd shot, looking down into the marsh was taken at 7:05 AM. The 3rd shot shows you what the trail was like where we were climbing. I wonder if it is always like this, or if this was merely due to the heavy rain of last night. The time is 7:14 AM.
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A while later (7:18 AM) the clouds parted a bit and spot-lighted the marsh. It was amazing to watch the spotlight move across. I took a movie of it, but it's too large to show here. The 2nd shot is another shot of Leontopodium japonicum var. shiroumense - A type of Edelweiss. We found 2 types of Edelweiss this day - so expect to see more! The 3rd shot looks down into the marsh again with "the spotlight" on the lower part of our mountain.
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Here I have zoomed into a small portion of the marsh. Look at the ponds! The 2nd shot is Kazuya on the trail - the rock is weirdly reddish and several unique plants grow here due to this uncommon rock/soil type. The mountain consists primarily of serpentine type minerals, which also means that the rock is relatively slippery! Such fun to walk on, especially in this wet condition. Be careful! The 3rd shot is Primula modesta. There was lots of this Primrose here - very beautiful.
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Clouds were still passing by in this first shot of Erigeron thunbergii subsp. glabratus var. heterotrichus - a reddish colored Daisy. The 2nd shot shows the 2nd type of Edelweiss which we found here - Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium. This one is a long and skinny leaved/flowered type of Edelweiss. The 3rd shot is a very high elevation Pine - a Pinus pumila coming into bud.
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Here is a plant which is unique to some limited areas in Japan: Mt. Shibutsu, Mt. Tanigawadake and some areas on Hokkaido. It is Japonolirion osense. That is followed by a yellow flowered violet - Viola biflora f. glabrifolia. We had seen Viola biflora previously, but not this form of it. The 3rd shot is a Pedicularis verticillata - there were lots of this plant.
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These 3 photos all show an orchid - Dactylorhiza aristata. Notice the variations in the lines on the flowers - it is amazing.
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Here is the Edelweiss again - Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium. It is followed by a shot which shows how the Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium grows with the Pedicularis verticillata. The 3rd shot is a Pedicularis verticillata. This place was like a garden - the amount of mountain flowers here was just beyond description.
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Here is a very close shot of Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium - an Edelweiss and then a pink Daisy (Erigeron thunbergii subsp. glabratus var. heterotrichus). The 3rd shot is one more of Pedicularis verticillata.
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The first shot here shows you just how abundant the Pedicularis verticillata was - look at it. The 2nd shot is a very strange flower of Veratrum maackii var. japonicum f. atropurpureum. The 3rd shot is one more of the pink Daisy (Erigeron thunbergii subsp. glabratus var. heterotrichus).
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Another shot of Pedicularis verticillata, followed by a scenic shot with even more Pedicularis verticillata in it. The 3rd shot is a Pinguicula macroceras - looks kind of like a violet, but it is not.
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This was such a beautiful rose bud - unbelievable! It is a Rosa nipponensis. It is followed by 2 more shots of Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium - the Edelweiss.
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Here is another shot of Edelweiss - Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium. The 2nd shot is the Viola biflora f. glabrifolia again. The 3rd shot is another Rosa nipponensis. This rose had beautiful buds, but the flowers, though they had a wonderful scent, were always damaged in some way, by wind, insects or something else. Therefore you will see no photos of the fully opened flowers here.
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In this row you have 3 photos showing 2 plants - Edelweiss - Leontopodium fauriei var. angustifolium and Pedicularis verticillata. I think you can figure out which is which by now.
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Looking down into the marshland once again. Our tent is near those huts at the center of the photo. You can also see the boardwalk snaking its way across the marsh. The next shot is more Pedicularis verticillata. The 3rd shot is another of those Pink Daisy flowers with the long Latin name - Erigeron thunbergii subsp. glabratus var. heterotrichus.
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Ah, we have finally attained the summit of Mt. Shibutsu (2,228 meters = 7,310 feet) - the time is 11:02 AM. Here is a shot of me, followed by one of Kazuya. We ate our lunch here at the summit and then headed for Mt. Koshibutsu. The final shot in this row and on this page is a Viola biflora f. glabrifolia with some rain drops on it. The time is now 11:35 AM
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