Another ambling day, this time around the headland of Akrotiri Kakomouri. Another day of scattered sunshine, with a fairly chilly wind at times. Another day of confiding butterflies, new orchids and gruesome plant life!
A very friendly Cretan Festoon
and the Festoon's food plant,
Aristolochia cretica. If there's one group of plants that could challenge the Araceae in the gruesome stakes, it's the
Birthworts. Of course, Crete being Crete, it has to have its own endemic species. And as with elsewhere, the rule of 'follow the festoon and you'll find the birthwort' worked a treat!
The orchids today weren't present in such spectacular numbers as
near Spili, but there was still a good variety to be found amongst the spiny phrygana vegetation, including a nice group of
Ophrys herae, the very impressive
O. grigoriana and a couple of spikes of
O. candica (above).
A very friendly Cretan Festoon
and the Festoon's food plant, Aristolochia cretica. If there's one group of plants that could challenge the Araceae in the gruesome stakes, it's the Birthworts. Of course, Crete being Crete, it has to have its own endemic species. And as with elsewhere, the rule of 'follow the festoon and you'll find the birthwort' worked a treat!
The orchids today weren't present in such spectacular numbers as near Spili, but there was still a good variety to be found amongst the spiny phrygana vegetation, including a nice group of Ophrys herae, the very impressive O. grigoriana and a couple of spikes of O. candica (above).
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