Miscellaneous Awesomeness, Okaloosa Co. FL
Aug 7, 2015 19:56:19 GMT -5
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Post by calen on Aug 7, 2015 19:56:19 GMT -5
Man, the bogs in Okaloosa Co. are so diverse! The flavas and leucos are incredible in their own right, but nature just has to be even more awesome and give us mooreis too! Anyway, here are a few pics from a few different sites we were fortunate to visit this summer. Pics taken June 30 and 31, 2015.
I think ocpaddict will agree with me: doesn't get much more legit than this! Trey on the right, Phil stumbling around in wonderment with back to camera, Rayner doing the same at left rear
A spot where water was visibly seeping from the hillside. S. psittacina was this dense in many areas of these bogs but this was one of the only spots where the grass was thin enough to even see them. Mostly you know they are there because suddenly you hear poppopoppop under your feet...
Gosh, I'm leaning leuco and not moorei on this guy but some of the plants in there were REAL hard to call one way or the other
These bogs will leave you speechless
What a handsome fella! DirtyDivisions with S. x moorei
So many nice moorei!
Wherever red flavas grew, spectacular red moorei were never far away
The back-crossing can get pretty crazy out there! Spotted this aereolated "rugelii" - you'd never know it had leuco in it otherwise!
Cultivars, cultivars everywhere!
Another rugelii that probably has moorei somewhere in its history - that "Killer"-esque throat blotch is veeery suspeeecious
Even though its not their prime season, the leucos were looking pretty darn amazing
Looking downhill through a big patch of leucos. Notice the "creek" in the background that the seepage field drains towards. One thing that really perplexed us all was that often times leucos and flavas seemed to be segregated in the bogs. If you look close here you can see there are zero flavas mixed in with the leucos, and likewise the flavas are growing off by themselves a bit further down the slope. So odd.
Same thing here: leucos in the foreground, tons of flavas in the background, but very little mixing of the two. Some seeps seemed to be "flava seeps" and some were "leuco seeps" even right next to each other in the same bog.
Again, leucos in front, flavas in back (are those atros? ) Mixing in the bog didn't seem to be random in a lot of spots.
Spectacular moorei in a leuco patch - the red flava daddy plant was no doubt chilling a few meters away...
Of all the uncountable incredible moorei in these sites, I think this one was my very favorite. What do you think philcula - is it worthy?
It's throat blotch really was that blackish purple color. Just unreal.
If it hadn't gotten dark, we wouldn't have left! Next year: headlamps. Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed the shots.
I think ocpaddict will agree with me: doesn't get much more legit than this! Trey on the right, Phil stumbling around in wonderment with back to camera, Rayner doing the same at left rear
A spot where water was visibly seeping from the hillside. S. psittacina was this dense in many areas of these bogs but this was one of the only spots where the grass was thin enough to even see them. Mostly you know they are there because suddenly you hear poppopoppop under your feet...
Gosh, I'm leaning leuco and not moorei on this guy but some of the plants in there were REAL hard to call one way or the other
These bogs will leave you speechless
What a handsome fella! DirtyDivisions with S. x moorei
So many nice moorei!
Wherever red flavas grew, spectacular red moorei were never far away
The back-crossing can get pretty crazy out there! Spotted this aereolated "rugelii" - you'd never know it had leuco in it otherwise!
Cultivars, cultivars everywhere!
Another rugelii that probably has moorei somewhere in its history - that "Killer"-esque throat blotch is veeery suspeeecious
Even though its not their prime season, the leucos were looking pretty darn amazing
Looking downhill through a big patch of leucos. Notice the "creek" in the background that the seepage field drains towards. One thing that really perplexed us all was that often times leucos and flavas seemed to be segregated in the bogs. If you look close here you can see there are zero flavas mixed in with the leucos, and likewise the flavas are growing off by themselves a bit further down the slope. So odd.
Same thing here: leucos in the foreground, tons of flavas in the background, but very little mixing of the two. Some seeps seemed to be "flava seeps" and some were "leuco seeps" even right next to each other in the same bog.
Again, leucos in front, flavas in back (are those atros? ) Mixing in the bog didn't seem to be random in a lot of spots.
Spectacular moorei in a leuco patch - the red flava daddy plant was no doubt chilling a few meters away...
Of all the uncountable incredible moorei in these sites, I think this one was my very favorite. What do you think philcula - is it worthy?
It's throat blotch really was that blackish purple color. Just unreal.
If it hadn't gotten dark, we wouldn't have left! Next year: headlamps. Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed the shots.