Mendoza, Argentina, January 2012

[gervandenbeuken]

The following ten are the last pics I will post about this 2012 Mendoza tour:
Maihuenia patagonica
Nastanthus agglomeratus
Oxalis adenohylla
Perezia recurvata
Pleurophora patagonica
Pterocactus araucanus
Senna arnottiana
Viola atropurpurea
Viola columnaris
Our group : Sitting from left to right: Mariet van den Beuken, Kees Jan van Zwienen, Hilary Birks, John Birks, Botaniste Macela Ferreyra, Ger van den Beuken,
Joan McCaughey, Elena Dobrzhansk, Liam McCaughey.
Standing from left to right: Miroslav Kawalec, Edward Raczka, Sheena hesketh, Anne Spiegel, Erich Pasche, Joe Spiegel, Sue Dawson.

[Hoy]

Never mind Cliff, I'm sure you will have a very interesting time, always still of my wishes to see Raoulia eximia in its natural habitat.
Anyway, we return again to Argentina in November and December. Our group is almost complete. Perhaps one or two more could join but thats the level.

And I am one of the lucky guys!
Hope we'll find as many plants as you did last time! Marvellous
Ger, we have to walk barefoot I suppose, not to destroy those delicate plants

[gervandenbeuken]

Hi Trond, so nice to meet you here. I agree we saw wonderful plants last tour in Mendoza but I can promise you many, many more excellent plants. Rosulate Viola's,
 mmmmmmm!

[gervandenbeuken]

By the way, have you seen some pics from our Neuquentour in 2010?

[Hoy]

By the way, have you seen some pics from our Neuquentour in 2010?

Hi Trond, so nice to meet you here. I agree we saw wonderful plants last tour in Mendoza but I can promise you many, many more excellent plants. Rosulate Viola's,
 mmmmmmm!

Actually I am more here than at SRGC's site!
You did post from the Neuquentour 2010 there, didn't you? Anyway I have admired pictures there

[IMYoung]

By the way, have you seen some pics from our Neuquentour in 2010?

For the curious......
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9907.0  - learn about a future tour with Ger
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3022.0    previous trips
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4963.0

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8475.0  Kees Jan's photos from 2012 

[gervandenbeuken]

Many thanks Maggie and Ian for your reply. Will we see you in Edinburgh in April?

[IMYoung]

Many thanks Maggie and Ian for your reply. Will we see you in Edinburgh in April?

Not sure yet, Ger, if we can attend the Edinburgh show.

[gervandenbeuken]

We arrive on April 5th. Got an invitation from Carol to be juror on the show on April 6th. So in that case we could see you.

[McDonough]

For the curious......
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9907.0  - learn about a future tour with Ger
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3022.0    previous trips
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4963.0

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8475.0  Kees Jan's photos from 2012  

There you go again Maggi, I lost about 3 hrs revisiting these pages!  Although I do recommend everyone check out all the links Maggi provided and look through the whole threads, the plants and photography quality are fantastic.

[IMYoung]

There you go again Maggi, I lost about 3 hrs revisiting these pages!  Although I do recommend everyone check out all the links Maggi provided and look through the whole threads, the plants and photography quality are fantastic.

   For those of us who are only armchair botanisers, such links are a lifeline - and you probably needed a break from your work, Mark!

[cohan]

I've enjoyed Ger's posts before, and this was no disappointment! amazing plants- some genera I have already admired greatly- Viola, Perezia, Nassauvia, Leucheria and more but some I've never heard of and such amazing plants: Chaetanthera spathulifolia, Barneoudia balliana
Moschopsis leyboldii...wow wow

[gervandenbeuken]

I've enjoyed Ger's posts before, and this was no disappointment! amazing plants- some genera I have already admired greatly- Viola, Perezia, Nassauvia, Leucheria and more but some I've never heard of and such amazing plants: Chaetanthera spathulifolia, Barneoudia balliana
Moschopsis leyboldii...wow wow

many thanks for all the compliments. Yes Argentina is a wonderful place on earth with so many unknown plants for many of us.
We are returning at the end of the year again to Neuquen. This trip is actually a repetition of the Rosulate Viola tour we did in 2010.
The tour is complete now with 14 participants, however for room sharing it would be fine if there was joining an additional male.
So that means Mr. Cohan or someone else, if you like, take your chance.

[cohan]

If I win the lottery soon, or lose a long-lost rich relative, you will hear from me
Meanwhile, we will look forward to pictures

[McDonough]

For those of you on Facebook, increasingly there's some good plant stuff there, and I just came across this gallery with some exquisite photos of rosulate Viola spacies:

There are some stunning closeup views of rosulate violets in this gellery. There's one mislabeled photo that actually shows Hamadryas kingii (Ranunculaceae)  but don't let that distract you. There's also a species I've not seen photographed before, Viola polycephala.  Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.453362701394794.108557.114292601968474&type=3