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Iris aucheri and I. aucheri ‘Leylek Lilac’ from earlier in the year in the Alpine House @kewgardens! The Latin specific epithet aucheri commemorates the 19th century French botanist Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy. #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine #kewgardens
Stunning irises at @kewgardens earlier this year! The upward pointing tepals are known as standards and the lower tepals as falls. The beard is the hairy part at the top of the falls. #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewgardens #kewalpine
Iris ‘Pamir Lemon’ a few weeks ago in the Alpine House at @kewgardens! #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine #kewgardens (at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Amazing to see Cypripedium formosanum, Formosan Lady’s Slipper #orchid, in the Alpine House at @kewgardens! Endemic to Taiwan it is Endangered in the wild but easily grown and propagated in cultivation. #Botany #PlantsAreCool #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine #kewgardens (at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Corydalis vittae in the Alpine House at @kewgardens. Part of the Fumarioideae subfamily of #Papaveraceae (poppy family), previously considered its own family. Easy to grow, this species is common in cultivation. #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine #kewgardens (at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Dionysia tapetodes flowers are typical of #Primulaceae and a beautiful pure yellow! Here in the Alpine House at @kewgardens but native to Central Asian mountains where it forms cushions typical of alpine plants. #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine #kewgardens (at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Draba hispanica var. atlantica, is a member of #Brassicaceae that was flowering last weekend in the Alpine House at @kewgardens in time for #cabbagechallenge! Native to the mountains of Spain with a distinctly hairy raceme stem #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine (at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
I love the red-orange-yellow colours of Fritillaria imperialis! Like flowers on fire! Last weekend in the Alpine House at @kewgardens, its found from Turkey across to the Himalayan foothills. #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #kewalpine #kewgardens (at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
