Beauties in pink

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Dedicated to the victims and people suffering from the Japanese quake-tsunami disaster 11 Mar 2011

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Crocuses found in the botanic garden of the biological institute of Würzburg university.

Some of them grow in a garden part that is emulated like a mountainous area.

common pasque flower [Pulsatilla vulgaris]

Sea pink

The sea pink or sea thrift [Armerita maritima] - its common German name is Strand-Grasnelke - is a typical flower of the salt meadows of the seaboard / coastal areas.

It can grow in dry, sandy, saline conditions such as those at beaches and salt marshes.

The Armeria maritima is able to exude the salt out of special glands on its leaf surface.