- Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:48 pm
#58120
OK, so here's a more detailed report from the trip. I visited the same places I did visit last year. It takes quite a nice hike to get to the plants - about 12 km one way. But the scenery of the polish mountains is beautiful:) Our road started here:
This place is called Chyszowki (something like heshoofkee in english;) ). The cultivated fields around form unique conditions for many plants, including lots of orchids. Among them, the very interesting and quite rare Orchis mascula:
And other orchids, like Dactylorhiza maculata, D.majalis, D.fuchsii etc.
Including the hard to spot (because of it's colour) Listera ovata
That's a very interesting area when you're spotting orchids. But we were searching for carnivorous plants! The area was once known for it's bogs and wet terrains, but in the 80's a large part of the bogs was artficially dried out. Only a few still exist today, and they're rather safe so nothing to worry about.
The area where the butterworts grow is very hard to reach and find. We had big rainfalls in Poland for a long time recently and there was a lot of mud and water. Fortunately the weather was beautiful that day. When we arrived, we saw lots of orchids again:
And finally, after a few minutes we noticed the butterworts in the grass:
There was also lots of newts, tadpoles and other stuff in the nearby stream.
The butterworts seem to be doing well, but there was less of them than the last year. Also one entire population on another bog disappeared. Hope these will be fine.
This place is called Chyszowki (something like heshoofkee in english;) ). The cultivated fields around form unique conditions for many plants, including lots of orchids. Among them, the very interesting and quite rare Orchis mascula:
And other orchids, like Dactylorhiza maculata, D.majalis, D.fuchsii etc.
Including the hard to spot (because of it's colour) Listera ovata
That's a very interesting area when you're spotting orchids. But we were searching for carnivorous plants! The area was once known for it's bogs and wet terrains, but in the 80's a large part of the bogs was artficially dried out. Only a few still exist today, and they're rather safe so nothing to worry about.
The area where the butterworts grow is very hard to reach and find. We had big rainfalls in Poland for a long time recently and there was a lot of mud and water. Fortunately the weather was beautiful that day. When we arrived, we saw lots of orchids again:
And finally, after a few minutes we noticed the butterworts in the grass:
There was also lots of newts, tadpoles and other stuff in the nearby stream.
The butterworts seem to be doing well, but there was less of them than the last year. Also one entire population on another bog disappeared. Hope these will be fine.
Last edited by moof on Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:24 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Wow, beautiful photos! I hope they'll be fine too! Thanks for sahring. 
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