4th part: a beautiful station of Pinguicula vallisneriifolia

[kisscool_38]

Ater visiting our first station de Pinguicula vallisneriifolia Webb, we follow ahead through the Sierra de Segura in search of a second station of this plant.

Although we found several waterfalls and seeping walls, we didn't see any butterwort on them. But we quickly found a suitable place for them that host one of the most beautiful station in my opinion of the vallisneria-leaf butterwort, located in a narrow barranco (gorge):

 

The first few plants were settled on a rock to the left of the stream in the entrance of the barranco:

 

Then for our pleasure, a myriad of plants spread their leaves and flowers along the walls of this canyon:

 

They even occupy the humid slopes on around 50 m to the bottom of the cliffs under the spanish blazing sun:

 

Amazingly, the leaves in this station become very long and also very thin, much more than in the other stations I could visited:

 

Here, the dominant color of the flowers is white with a yellow spot on the throat:

 

Leaves of some plants feature a very nice reddish coloration:

 

And here is a last photo, till the next episod, of a great group of Pinguicula:

 

Regards

 

Edited February 21, 2018 by kisscool_38

[James O'Neill]

The pics are real nice, even though I don't get all the French

[kisscool_38]

I was translating but press on "submit" instead of "preview"

[Daniel O.]

Hi Aymeric ,

again very nice pictures.

I really like the landscape, the little canyon looks also very interesting.

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,

Dani

[dudo klasovity]

Beautiful! Nice to see my favourite pinguicula in the wild! Thanx for sharing:-)

[Greg Allan]

Wonderful photos of spectacular plants! Thanks for sharing them.

Greg