A special treat for you from a new member @marcos

marcos said:Sorry for my bad english. My name is Mariangela Costanzo, I live in Italy and I am a Sempervivum fancier. I love to search plants in wild. I have wrote of Italian species and hybrids here:
http://www.cactus-co.com/index... . Download free.
The text is in Italian language, sorry, but there are about 100 colour photos.
May be my work can interested the members of this interesting forum.
Thank you
Sincerely

Mariangela

This has been cleared by Dave as being safe. The photos are amazing and very interesting. Have fun.
Mariangela thank you so much for sharing your work with us.

The correct link is: http://www.cactus-co.com/index...

Thanks Tim - I did get it figured out before I read your post
Wow @Marcos so beautiful! I love all the photos! It is great to see the plants in their environment!
Welcome to this forum! Great work you are doing!

Thank you Lynn, Tim, Greg. Colucci, Italian name?
I go hunting of Semps since thirty years and I have many photos of them that I would have the pleasure to share with you. But I am a Jurassic women and I don't Know if I will be able to post the photos. If you wish, you can go to "Cactus & co forum". We have a space devoted to wild italian succulents: "Indigene & Intruse". You can see many photos of Semps and of their environment. I have also wrote some articles for Cactus & co journal. They are in Italian and in English language. One of this: "The mistery of yellow Sempervivum" is on-line. You must look for: "Il giallo del semprevivo giallo" and you find it (in FAB Gruppo Flora Alpina Bergamasca home page). Dowload free.
If you any question about Italian taxa, I will happy to reply you, but please excuse my english.
Bye

Mariangela

May be I am succesful to enclose a photo? It is a very interesting plant of Comba di Vertosan

Marcos. Wonderful photos.

Si Marcos my father was Italian! I don't know any but love Italian food :P (Who doesn't!) I love this picture of the semp - what do you mean a combo - of which plants? Montonum and something else??
Ciao!

Greg, it is an area in Italy.
https://www.google.com/search?...

Oh my, wouldn't this be a dream trip.

The Comba di Vertosan is a interesting place of Aosta Valley. The Sempervivum montanum that are growing in this place, between 1600 and 2180 mt, are very, very large. From 3.5 cm up to 11 cm. Further 2180 mt, the montanum are 2 cm large. The question is: are they subsp montanum or subsp. burnatii? I think subsp. montanum.
Greg, in Vertosan, there is, at 1800 mt height, a nice restaurant.





Ciao

Mariangela

Thank you Tim for correcting the web address, I made the correction in the first post.

Mariangela, the last photo shows such a lovely small colony of sempervivum. And the mountain photo makes me wish I could go there in person and see everything.

Marcos doesn't that look beautiful!!!
Pretty scene and gear looking plants