This video shows the very first spring woodland flowers to emerge in Ticino, Swizterland. I find these flowers on a trail that goes from the village of Melano, to the impressive and powerful waterfall "Cascata di Botto" that actually emerges from a hole in a rock and is fed by two underground lakes. As I ascend the mountain I have views over beautiful Lugano Lake. A hepatica: Hepatica nobilis and a primrose: Primula vulgaris are the very first flowers to emerge on the slopes of Monte Generoso in the southern Swiss pre-alps bordering Italy and the Lombardy plain. These two flowers are especially beautiful in the grey/brown spring landscape and have fascinating historical and medicinal backgrounds. These plants help explain "the Doctrine of Signatures" a disproved pseudoscience that states that herbs that have parts that look like body parts have medicinal powers to heal that body part.
To see more about this trail, the history of the area, and more on the geology of the fascinating and majestic waterfall "Cascata di botto" please click on the link below.
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5 апр 2024
