Expeditions. Seychelles, July - August of 1997 |
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Seychelles, July - August of 1997: |
| "One of the goals of this expedition was taking photos of the rare plant
Nepetnthes pervillei, which grows only on these islands. We had been
searching it for a long time in vain. It was getting dark aleady, and our
hopes to find this flower was dying out with the Sun.On the sideroad we saw
a boy about 14 and tried to make inquieres to him. He could not understand,
what we wanted and could not even define the language we spoke. Then I took
a pencil and drew the typical form of Nepenthes pervilleii. The boy nicked
his head with joy and led us to the top of hte nearest mountain. In 30
minutes we found ourselves in the place, where hundreds of splendid plants
grew, which we had been searching for so long."
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| Photographies from expedition |
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 Bixa orellana, Victoria Botanical Garden |  Dillenia indica, Victoria Botanical Garden |  Typhonodorum lindleyanum, Victoria Botanical Garden |
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 Chrysophyllum cainito, Victoria Botanical Garden |  Borassus flabellifer, Victoria Botanical Garden |  Bougainvillea sp., Plantation Club |
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 Ravenala madagascariensis, Plantation Club |  Lodoicea maldivica, Praslin |  Lodoicea maldivica, Praslin |
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 Calophyllum inophyllum Murray's, Plantation Club |  Cassia fistula, Praslin |  Cocos nucifera, Praslin |
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 Chrysobalanus icaco, Praslin |  Calophyllum inophyllum Murray's, Praslin |  Erythrina indica, Victoria Botanical Garden |
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 Cycas circinalis, Plantation Club |  Thunbergia erecta, Plantation Club |  Flemingia strobilifera, Plantation Club |
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 Passiflora foetida, Plantation Club |  Duranta plumieri, Victoria Botanical Garden |  Nepenthes pervillei, Plantation Club |
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 Pandanus seychellarum, Plantation Club |  Pandanus seychellarum, Plantation Club |  Scaevola taccada, Plantation Club |
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 Thespesia populnea, Praslin | | |
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