Pictures about the nature of North-Finland: year 2003
The leaves of European white birch (Betula pendula) are in the Northern Finland at the first half of juni
bigger than in buds. The young leaves are reddish coloured by anthocyan - the same colourant
as in the petals of reddish flowers and reddish autumncolors. How do you recognize, that this is
an European white birch and neither pubescent birch nor dwarf birch?
This spring was rather cool, but now the birches in Lapland are closing their flowering
the cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) and the bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) are flowering
and marsh tea (Ledum palustre) will soon start flowering...
Summer is now! Bog rosemary (Andromeda poliifolia) is flowering on the shore of small, swamped pond
and also spike-rush (Trichophorum alpinum) has white flowerbristles. Both of them bog species
are very common everywhere in Northern Finland.
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