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Natural History Of Rhodes
The natural history of the island of Rhodes is determined by its geographic position, climate and geological diversity. Rhodes is in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin close to the coast of Turkey, and the flora and fauna are a mixture of Mediterranean and Asian elements. Rhodes is in the Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests ecoregion. The habitats are: arable land; perennial crops, orchards and groves, ruderal land; coastline and coastal rocky areas, inland cliffs, sea cliffs and rocky shores: forest, native coniferous woodland; grassland steppes and dry calcareous grassland; shrub land, sclerophyllous scrub, garrigue and maquis shrubland; wetland, rivers and streams. Flowering plants The flowering plant species of Rhodes number 1,243. Phrygana or spiny garrigue Phrygana or garrigue is open dwarf scrub dominated by low, often cushion-shaped, spiny shrubs. The phryganic species are high-temperature and drought tolerant, and they grow at low altitudes ...
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Euphorbia Acanthothamnos
''Euphorbia acanthothamnos'', is a species of flowering plant, belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Description It is a shrub that reaches 30 cm in height. It forms a thorny cushion that blooms from March to June. It grows mainly in limestone areas. Distribution It is endemic to the eastern Mediterranean, Crete, Greece, and Turkey. It grows from sea level to more than 2000 meters. Taxonomy ''Euphorbia acanthothamnos'' was described by Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss. and published in ''Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum'' , ser. 2, 4: 1859. 86. ''Acanthothamnos'' is an epithet that means "thorny bush" in Greek. References acanthothamnos {{Euphorbia-stub ...
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Narcissus Serotinus
''Narcissus serotinus'' is a species of the genus ''Narcissus'' (daffodils) in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is classified in Section ''Serotini''. It is native to southern Europe from Portugal to Greece. It also native to Israel, where it blossoms in the autumn. Description ''Narcissus serotinus'' has one of the smallest coronas of the genus (see illustration). The flowers are fragrant, the tepals A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of very ... white and the small corona yellow. References serotinus Garden plants Flora of Spain Flora of Malta {{Amaryllidaceae-stub ...
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Drimia Maritima
''Drimia maritima'' (syn. ''Urginea maritima'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). This species is known by several common names, including squill, sea squill, sea onion, and maritime squill.''Drimia maritima'' (maritime squill).
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It may also be called red squill, particularly a form which produces red-tinged flowers instead of white. It is native to southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.


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Cyclamen Graecum
''Cyclamen graecum'', the Greek cyclamen, is a perennial plant in the flowering plant family Primulaceae that grows from a tuber. It is native to southern Greece, southern Turkey and neighboring islands and is prized for its variable leaf forms, which include some of the most striking of any cyclamen. Distribution ''Cyclamen graecum'' is native to a wide variety of areas up to elevation in southern mainland Greece, the Peloponnese, Aegean Islands, Crete, the southern coast of Turkey, and northern Cyprus. Description The tuber is corky, with a thick, strong, fleshy anchor, and roots sprouting from the center of the bottom. The leaves are heart-shaped and toothed. The flowers bloom in autumn, with five petals which are white or pink with a darker blotch at the nose. They are often fragrant. The bases of the petals are curled outwards into auricles. After pollination, the flower stem coils in both directions, starting from the center, not from the top as in ''Cyclamen hederif ...
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Colchicum Cupanii
''Colchicum cupanii'' is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae, known as the Mediterranean meadow saffron. It grows around much of the central Mediterranean Basin, reported from France, Sardinia, Italy, Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia, Sicily, Algeria, Malta and Tunisia. ''Colchicum cupanii'' is quite variable. Some specimens have flowers that open completely to a star shape, while others remain cup-shaped. The pink to purple, untessellated flowers are small, up to 3 cm (1") in diameter, but are produced in abundance in the fall. The foliage is also produced in the fall.Gussone, Giovanni. 1827. Florae Siculae Prodromus 1: 452, ''Colchicum cupani'' Subspecies Two subspecies are recognized: *''Colchicum cupanii'' subsp. ''cupanii'' *''Colchicum cupanii'' subsp. ''glossophyllum'' (Heldr.) Rouy - Greece, Albania, Montenegro ) , image_map = Europe-Montenegro.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , ...
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Sternbergia Lutea
''Sternbergia lutea'', the winter daffodil, autumn daffodil, fall daffodil, lily-of-the-field, or yellow autumn crocus, is a bulbous flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, in the Narcisseae tribe, which is used as an ornamental plant. It has yellow flowers which appear in autumn. The Latin specific epithet ''lutea'' means "yellow". Description ''Sternbergia lutea'' has a wide distribution from the Balearic Islands in the Western Mediterranean through to Tajikistan in Central Asia., search for "Sternbergia lutea" It dies down to a bulb during the summer. Leaves first appear in the autumn (September to November in its native habitats), and are glossy green, up to 12 mm wide; they remain through the winter. Deep yellow flowers appear soon after the leaves, with six tepals around 3–3.5 cm long,, p. 157–159 six yellow stamens and a style with a single stigma. Smaller forms with narrower leaves (up to 5 mm wide) and narrowe ...
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Asphodelus Aestivus
''Asphodelus aestivus'', the summer asphodel, is a species of asphodel, a common Western Mediterranean geophyte with a short vertical rhizome and basal leaves. Its flowers are actinomorphic, pinkish-white, with six perianth segments, 14–19 mm long and six stamens of the same length, in two whorls. Its distribution is limited to the Western Mediterranean, mainly found in Portugal and Spain on the European mainland. There has been a lot of confusion over the nomenclature and taxonomy of the species, owing to its similarity to ''Asphodelus ramosus''. It grows in dry grasslands, phrygana and on rocky or sandy ground. Physical characteristics The ''Asphodelus aestivus'' is a geophyte, having an underground storage organ which enables the plant to survive adverse conditions, such as excessive heat and drought. Its leaves, growing to a height of –, contain alkaloids that are harmful to sheep and goats in the wet, winter months, but during the summer when their leaves dry out, t ...
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Ballota Acetabulosa
''Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus'', the Greek horehound, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to south-eastern Greece, Crete, and western Turkey. It is a compact, evergreen subshrub growing to . Upright woolly grey shoots turn to rounded grey-green leaves, bearing whorls of small pink flowers with funnel-shaped green calyces in late summer and autumn. It is tolerant of poor soil and drought, and often used in cultivation as groundcover Groundcover or ground cover is any plant that grows over an area of ground. Groundcover provides protection of the topsoil from erosion and drought. In an ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as .... References {{Lamiaceae-stub Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora of Greece Flora of Crete Flora of Turkey Lamiaceae ...
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Calicotome Villosa
''Calicotome villosa'', also known as hairy thorny broom and spiny broom, is a small shrubby tree native to the eastern Mediterranean region. Etymology ''Calicotome'' is derived from the Greek ''Kalux'', calyx and ''tomos'', cut ; this refers to the fact that, after flowering, the calyx breaks off in circle and looks as if cut. ''Villosa'' is derived from the Latin ''villus'', hair, because the pods are usually hairy. Description Shrubby tree, 1–2 m, very spiny. Twigs striate, villous. Leaves digitate, with three leaflets, inserted in clusters on branchlets. Flowers inserted in the middle of the leaves on branchlets. Calyx campanulate, puberulent, with margins almost entire. Corolla 10–12 mm, bright yellow. Standard ample, longer than other parts. Pod densely villous. The tree blossoms in January thru April. Habitat Rocky hillsides and bushy places. The tree is endemic to coastal regions of the Levant, especially the lower mountain regions of southern Lebanon, and thr ...
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Erica Manipuliflora
''Erica manipuliflora'' is a plant belonging to the genus ''Erica''. The plant is native to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, East Thrace, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ... and Syria. References manipuliflora {{Ericaceae-stub ...
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Hypericum Empetrifolium
''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''Hypericum'' species are regarded as invasive species and noxious weeds. All members of the genus may be referred to as St. John's wort, and some are known as goatweed. The white or pink flowered marsh St. John's worts of North America and eastern Asia are generally accepted as belonging to the separate genus ''Triadenum'' Raf. ''Hypericum'' is unusual for a genus of its size because a worldwide taxonomic monograph was produced for it by Norman Robson (working at the Natural History Museum, London). Robson recognizes 36 sections within ''Hypericum''. Description ''Hypericum'' species are quite variable in habit, occurring as trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials. Trees in the sense of single stemmed woody plants are rare, as most woody spe ...
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