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| Omalos road wreckage
This is the sight that met us (writes Julia Jones) when I took two guests from USA into the mountains around the Omalos Plateau in June 2013 in search of the rare, endangered and endemic lizard orchid Himantoglossum samariense.
This is one of only two recently recorded sites where this beautiful orchid could be found on Crete. Obviously, there will be no more orchids of any description here.
It seems that the road up to the plateau is being 'improved' and widened to accommodate more traffic, i.e. coaches.
There are already signs of new building at the head of the Samaria Gorge and we can only speculate on the amount of devastation that will be caused. |
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In praise of Ophrys: Thomas Sampliner writes about his favourite orchids — click here.
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Flower of the month, April 2014
Cretan cyclamen Cyclamen creticum
The gorgeous Cretan cyclamen reminds us that being an endemic (or nearly so - it's also on Karpathos) doesn't always mean rare. In open woodland, Cretan cyclamen can be in dense carpets with flowers numbering in thousands. They can also be seen in gorges, but typically not in such masses. Cretan cyclamen can found, in the right habitat, in the majority of Crete. Flowers are usually white, occasionally pink.
These were inland from Plakias. More flowers month by month here.
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Cyclamen graecum — from the Flowers of Crete calendar 2014
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