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Oro de risco (Anagyris latifolia)
Shrub very woody and branched up to 3.5 m (more rarely 5 m), deciduous in the dry season (summer and part of autumn). Leaves are trifoliate, light green and rather fleshy. Flowers are bright yellow, terminal or subterminal, producing a ...
Doradilla (Ceterach aureum)
Rosette fern, with fasciculate fronds (leaves), shortly creeping rhizome. Dark green on top, densely tomentose and reddish-brown beneath, up to 30 cm long and 6 cm wide. Spore cases are irregular, long and somewhat linear. This plant is ...
Verode (Kleinia neriifolia)
Shrub, succulent stems, generally up to 1-1.15 m tall, although it can exceed 2.5 m. A deciduous species, leaves drop with the arrival of the dry season and reappear with the onset of autumnal rain. Leaves are fleshy, lanceolate (up to 12 ...
Sorveira (Sorbus maderensis)
Deciduous shrub up to 3 m tall. Leaves pinnate, 5-15 cm long, composed of 12-15 lanceolate leaflets, with crenate margins, deep dark green on top. Numerous whitish or creamy flowers are arranged in terminal clusters. Fruits are globose ...
Leituga (Tolpis macrorhiza)
Perennial herb, up to half a metre tall, though generally smaller. It is completely glabrous; the lower leaves are petiolate and the higher sessile, rather fleshy, serrate and brilliant green. Flowers are numerous and are bright yellow. A ...
Árbol de Santa María, folhado, folhadeiro (Clethra arborea)
Tree to 10 m, evergreen foliage, trunk smooth and whitish-grey or chestnut. Leaves large (hence its common name of folhado or large leaf), up to 20 cm long and 7 cm wide, generally oblong-lanceolate, with serrate margins, pubescent on the ...
Pampilhos, malmequeres, estreleira (Argyranthemum pinnatifidum ssp. pinnatifidum)
A woody shrub that can reach 2 m, highly branched, with large leaves (7-22 x 2.5-10 cm), ovate or oblong-lanceolate, very irregular (pinnately lobed). Inflorescence dense, composed of up to 30 flower heads, with white ligules and a yellow ...
Buxo da rocha (Maytenus umbellata)
Dense, highly branched shrub, up to 2.5 m tall (sometimes more), perennial, the main trunk and branches ash-grey to chestnut. Leaves are leathery, elliptic, margins somewhat crenate, varying in size (2-7 x 1-3.5 cm). Flowers are numerous, ...
Orquídea da serra (Dactylorhiza foliosa)
Orchid to 60-80 cm tall, leaves lanceolate, long and narrow, up to 35 cm long and 5 cm wide. Flowers are arranged in a conical inflorescence of striking pink-purple to pale pink flowers with dark markings on the petals (lips). Endemic to ...
Jorao, jorjao, tojía (Asteriscus sericeus)
Densely branched, woody shrub, up to 1 m. Leaves located near the tip, broadly oblanceolate, 3-5 cm long, herbaceous, covered in silvery silky down on both sides. Flowers large (3-5cm in diameter), very striking and bright yellow. Endemic ...
Pulicaria purpuraria (Pulicaria canariensis)
Small subshrub, biennial or perennial, woody at the base, up to 20 cm. Rounded, leaves oblanceolate or spathulate, densely woolly, up to 6 cm long, borders entire or sinuate-dentate. Striking large (3-5 cm in diameter) golden yellow ...
Tajasnoyo (Ferula lancerottensis)
Annual herb, with flowering stems to 1.5-2 m. Leaves up to 60 cm long, glossy and deep dark green, segments 4 cm wide. Umbels of numerous yellow flowers, 8 cm across. This species is a native of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, growing in ...
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