Welcome to the Wildlife Hotel

This is it, the Wildlife Hotel. It wasn't designed as such but is an abandoned project that has been this way since before I arrived in 2004. Gradually the native plants have taken over the gardens and the wildlife has moved in. Before we nose around though I'd just like to draw your attention to these poppies down here. To me, poppies used to be those red things that you wore on Remembrance Day or the mauve things in the middle east that provided the world, for better or for worse, with opium. I was quite surprised to learn that there were nearly eight hundred species dotted around the world with nine here on Crete alone including the familiar red and mauve ones. This particular one is widespread but not very common on the island and is called the Red horned-poppy. Presumably on account of that massive, rampant seed pod.

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Huhtikuu 25, 2017 13:40 EEST

Kuvaus

See photo 4 for Acrida turrita-Truxalis nasuta comparison. Content from biolib.cz

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Huhtikuu 27, 2017 09:42 EEST

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Mitä

Punaneidonunikko (Glaucium corniculatum)

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