Summer flowers in the middle of November

Anemone in November. Photo by Victor Storozhuk
Anemone in November. Photo by Victor Storozhuk

The blossomed spring flowers were revealed  by the employees of the national park «The land of the Leopard» in the «Cedar fold» reserve. Some burgeons of a marigold and anemone were found in the floodplain of the Cedar river, and near by the research staff registered rhododendron bush (Rhododendron), having faded recently. According to the words of specialists, secondary bloom was caused by warming, which came to Primorye in the first half of November. As a rule, flowering of these plants begins in south of the region in April, with the advent of plus temperatures.

  

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Marigold in November. Photo by Victor Storozhuk
Marigold in November. Photo by Victor Storozhuk

The finding very much surprised the employees of the «Land of the Leopard». Flowering of rhododendron in autumn is being noticed often enough, but primroses blooming buds were found this year for the first time.

It is notable that according to the meteorological observation, in the first half of November 2015 in Primorye can not be called an abnormally warm.  The weather stations` data  of the Barabash village (Khasan region) indicated that the average temperature of the first decade of the current month found out to be one of the lowest for the last seven years. However, the highest air temperature in the first half of November was 18.3 degrees Celsius, that is being maximum of this indicator over the last four years.