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posted: April 30th, 2008 |
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This page covers April 5th - a trip to Akigawa Hills - and the 6th - a trip to Ogesawa. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin April 5th |
On April 5th Kazuya and I went out to Akigawa Hills in search of Viola violacea and whatever else we could find. In this first row you can see a few of the fruits of our search.
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Here are 2 more shots of Viola violacea and a very close-up shot of a Cymbidum Orchid Flower (Cymbidium goeringii).
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Here are 2 more close shots of Cymbidium Orchid Flowers and a shot of Kazuya on the trail in the middle of a bamboo stand.
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Here are 2 photos of Viola phalacrocarpa and one shot of a Viola obtusa. Notice the hairy inner part of the Viola phalacrocarpa flower and the lack of hairs in the inside of the Viola obtusa flower.
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A Viola verecunda, another Viola obtusa and a Viola japonica.
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| End April 5th, Begin April 6th |
On April 6th we went out to the Ogesawa area and also the Hikage Creek area in search of a few things which we suspected should be out my now. In this first row of April 6th you can see a Viola bissetii flower, a Viola phalacrocarpa flower, with its hairy inside, and a Viola keiskei flower.
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Here is another V. keiskei shot and then two shots of V. eizanensis photos. Notice how "butter yellow" the center of the first eizanensis flower is - weird.
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Here is one more shot of V. eizanensis and then 2 shots of Viola yezoensis forma discolor - the Takao Violet. This is one of the things we were specifically in search of on this day!
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Here is one more shot of a Takao Violet - notice how purplish the leaves are on this form of this species. The 2nd shot is a Corydalis lineariloba and the 3rd shot is Chloranthus japonicus.
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Here is the other prime flower we were in search of on this day - Omphalodes japonica. We found LOTS of them. The 3rd shot is a small lizard. I actually saw 2 of them this close on this day. I also saw a bee close enough to get stung! It was my day for closeness to small things of nature I guess.
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Here are shots of a Trout Lily, an Oxalis (Oxalis griffithi var. kantoensis) and a Chrysosplenium macrostemon var. atrandrum.
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Here is another thing which we were in search of on this day. We used to find lots of this plant (Mitella pauciflora) here, but there have been fewer and fewer every year! We have never got what we consider really fine shots of it - it's very tiny flowered and very difficult to focus on. Why fewer and fewer every year? The final shot on this page shows some spring color on the mountainside.
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| End April 6th, End Page 1 |
| And, that shows you what we saw on April 5th and 6th. Thanks so much for taking the time to look. Please continue on to Page 2 for the continuation of April. |
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