Californian poppy, an invasive flower from North America, is flowering in the remains of the 1860s gold rush in Bannockburn.

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In the 1860s gold miners washed away major parts of the alluvial landscape near Cromwell in Central Otago. Today table mounts are towering above deep gorges in a dry desert landscape left by the gold rush. Some tourists are climbing the Bannockburn Track to the remains of gold mining times while Californian poppy, an invasive flower from North America, is flowering. In den 1860er Jahren schwemmten Goldwäscher gigantische Massen des Schiefergesteins in der Nähe von Cromwell in Central Otago in Neuseeland weg. Zurück blieben Tafelberge mit tief ausgewaschenen Schluchten in einer Halbwüste, die Touristen heute auf dem Bannockburn Track erwandern. Im Frühling bllüht dort der Kalifornische Mohn, eine invasive Pflanzenart.

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Size: 2848px × 4288px
Location: Bannockburn, Cromwell, Central Otago, New Zealand
Photo credit: © Roland Knauer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: art, bannockburn, blüte, californian, californica, eschscholzia, gold, goldfields, goldrausch, invasive, kalifornischer, mohn, neophyt, neophyte, neuseeland, poppy, rush, species, zealand