Monday, July 15, 2013
Maitohorsmat ja kultapiiskut kukkaloistossa.. / Willowherb blossoming..
.. tosin vain ja ainoastaan aseman pihalla. Nyt sitä vasta tajuaa maitohorsman olevan paloaukeiden kasvi, sitä on niin tottunut näkemään sitä kaikkialla (hakkuuaukeilla) että luonnontilaisessa metsässä sen puuttuminen hätkähdyttää.
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.. but only in the station's immediate surroundings. It's easy to forget this is essentially a forest fire plant, you see it everywhere in Finland (in clear cut forest), but here in natural untouched forest you suddenly realise how rare it would naturally be.
Ei ole maitohorsmaa näkynyt muualla kuin koirien lannoittamilla ja mönkijän uurtamilla laikuilla aseman pihalla. Viikon kuluttua lähdemme rajan viereen metsäpaloalueelle metaania mittaamaan, saa nähdä tuleeko siellä vastaan.
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Haven't seen it anywhere except by the station in fertilised (by the dogs) and disturbed (by the four wheeler) ground. We'll be measuring methane by the Russian border next week, in a recent forest fire area, will be interesting to see if there are any there.
Ps. for those who don't recognise "willowherb". It's Rosebay Willowherb / Fireweed / Great Willowherb / Bomb-Crater Plant / Plant-that-my-grandmother-couldn't-stand (because it grew in bombed houses during WW2)... Just call it Chamerion angustifolium, that's what Latin names are for.
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.. but only in the station's immediate surroundings. It's easy to forget this is essentially a forest fire plant, you see it everywhere in Finland (in clear cut forest), but here in natural untouched forest you suddenly realise how rare it would naturally be.
Ei ole maitohorsmaa näkynyt muualla kuin koirien lannoittamilla ja mönkijän uurtamilla laikuilla aseman pihalla. Viikon kuluttua lähdemme rajan viereen metsäpaloalueelle metaania mittaamaan, saa nähdä tuleeko siellä vastaan.
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Haven't seen it anywhere except by the station in fertilised (by the dogs) and disturbed (by the four wheeler) ground. We'll be measuring methane by the Russian border next week, in a recent forest fire area, will be interesting to see if there are any there.
Ps. for those who don't recognise "willowherb". It's Rosebay Willowherb / Fireweed / Great Willowherb / Bomb-Crater Plant / Plant-that-my-grandmother-couldn't-stand (because it grew in bombed houses during WW2)... Just call it Chamerion angustifolium, that's what Latin names are for.
// posted by Tapani Hopkins @ 12:46 
