Image of Bucaneve

Description:

Slo.: navadni mali zvonek - Habitat: broad leaved wood, slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect, relatively warm and humid place, mostly in shade (after tree leaves develop); cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock; elevation 445 m (1.460 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comment: Year after year I cannot resist photographing this very common but also very beautiful plant. It grows in fields of hundreds and thousands flowers here around. With its tenderness, freshness and elegant simplicity one cannot imagine a better symbol and promise of coming spring time. Its beauty seems to me a derision and revolt against the basic physical law of all material - entropy. What a surplus over bare biological functionality no matter how complex it may be! What an unreasonable abundance and richness is conveyed in these flower fields! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1071. (2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 745. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1080.