Our Man in China - Tour Report
9 June 2016, Chengdu
The AGS Tour to Sichuan has arrived in Chengdu. David Haselgrove has sent back these pictures.
Street food looks tasty -
especially the rabbits' heads!
12 June 2016, Gongganlen Pass
Our first Flower Walk of the Tour. Three Meconopsis species:
Meconopsis punicea
Meconopsis sinomaculata
Meconopsis integrifolia
14 June 2016, Huanlongsi
Natural tufa pools spread down a valley.
Weather good this morning but rained by lunch.
You are not allowed off wooden boardwalks so cannot get close to the plants.
LOTS of Cypripediums tibeticum, calcicola and flavum.
Cypripedium tibeticum
Cypripedium flavum
15 June 2016, Xueshanliang Pass
A good day for plants, but unfortunately cut short by rain.
Astragalus yunnanensis
Rhododendron przwalskii
Primula orbicularis
Androsace selago
Caragana jubata
Callianthemum farreri
Paraqueligia microphylla
Arenaria kansuensis
16 June 2016, A Driving Day
A driving day up onto the Tibetan plateau. Stopped to look at a monastery.
16 June 2016, Tibetan Plateau
Corydalis curviflora
Primula amethystina
Primula tangutica
Meconopsis psilonomma
Meconopsis punicea
Meconopsis punicea in the right foreground.
17 June 2016, Yellow River and Yangstze River Wate
Cremanthodium brunneopilosum
Corydalis sp.
Primula palmata
17 June 2016, near Hongyuan
The largest patch of Meconopsis integrifolia I have ever seen.
18 June 2016
Primula palmata
Meconopsis integrifolia
Corydalis sp.
Corydalis sp.
Caltha sp
20 June 2016
Primula cockburniana
Meconopsis henricii
Incarvillea compacta
Stellera chamaejasme
21 June 2016, Zeduo Pass
A driving day much to disgust of some of more desperate plant people!
Corydalis sp.
Iris chrysographes
Watch this space for more plants.