Florac and faunac

[mike wilson]

Bob W wrote:

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>>>< http://www.web-options.com/Causse/ >
>>>Comments welcome, but please note I already know I'm no Ansel Adams!
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>>http://www.web-options.com/Causse/content/_6226656_large.html
>>Carline thistle Carlina acaulis
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>>http://www.web-options.com/Causse/content/_6226670_large.html
>>Scarce swallowtail Papilio podalirius
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>>http://www.web-options.com/Causse/content/_6267019_large.html
>>(and previous) Black-veined white Aporia crataegi
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>>I'm not even going to hazard a guess at the orchids.
> 
> 
> I'm very impressed that you got those thistles and the butterflies/moth
> right. When I described the swallowtail to Alastair and Masha they both
> immediately suggested hawk moth. Whatever. It was a lovely friendly little
> creature with a very graceful soaring flight, almost never flapping its
> wings.
> 
> The orchids were quite common. Alastair seemed to like them, but also did
> not know more precisely what they are. I didn't even know they were orchids.
> 

Orchids are the bonobos of the plant world.  If you have two species 
growing in a place there will be 57 different hybrids, also.