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Saião (Aeonium gorgoneum)
The only representative of the genus Aeonium in Cape Verde. Small, erect herb, which can grow up to 60 cm tall. Woody stems, with succulent leaves arranged in dense terminal rosettes, which are spathulate or obovate-spathulate, up to 7 cm ...
Pulicaria (Pulicaria diffusa)
Subshrub, woody at base, with ascending stems. Stems and young leaves are covered in a whitish down, which gradually disappears. Leaves are narrowly spathulate, up to 9 cm long and 2 cm wide, apex rounded, margins crenate or dentate, ...
Mato-branco (Verbascum cystolithicum)
Perennial woody shrublet (up to 80 cm), with branched woody stems. Leaves in rosettes, petiolate, narrowly elliptic and up to 10 cm long, dark green with bronze margins. Flowers are arranged terminally on flower stems and are yellow with ...
Erva-cidreira (Micromeria forbesii)
Small aromatic shrub (to 30 cm), close-growing and highly branched. Leaves ovate to elliptic, short, more or less pubescent. Inflorescences are axillary, with 3-6 small purple, pink or white flowers. Exclusive to Cape Verde but with a ...
Losna (Artemisia gorgonum)
Aromatic shrub, highly branched, up to 2 m. Branches robust, woody, brown when mature. Leaves are bi-to tri-pinnatisect, greyish-green to silvery-white, smooth to the touch, up to 8 cm long and 6 cm wide. Inflorescence a contracted ...
Espargo (Asparagus squarrosus)
Shrublet scrambling, rarely climbing, and highly branched. Cladodes (false leaves), 4.5-20 mm long, dark green, grouped in fascicles. Flowers are greenish-yellow and bell-shaped; fruits are globose, up to 6 mm in diameter, and reddish ...
Magarza azulada (Argyranthemum coronopifolium)
Small shrub, up to 1 m. Leaves are obovate, pinnatifid, totally glabrous, rather succulent and bluish-green. Inflorescences have 1-8 heads, with white ligules and a yellow centre, like many other species of the genus Argyranthemum. An ...
Funcho (Tornabenea humilis)
Small plant, perennial or biennial, erect, up to 40 cm tall. Stem branched from the base, leaves up to 30 cm long, subcoriaceous, pinnate, with 4-8 pinnae. Numerous white flowers, arranged in umbels. A native of Fogo (Cape Verde), where ...
Cabezón de El Fraile (Cheirolophus burchardii)
Highly branched shrub up to 1.5 m, with a woody base. Leaves more or less lanceolate, light green, with entire or slightly serrate margins. Flowers are pale mauve or pinkish. Endemic to Tenerife, it was previously considered a variety of ...
Ortiga (Forsskaolea procridifolia)
Erect herb, up to 1 m (occasionally to 1.2 m) and rather branched. Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 10 cm long and 5 cm wide, dark green on top and whitish beneath, margins dentate. Inflorescences axillary, small and greenish. An ...
Palosangre (Marcetella moquiniana)
Highly branched shrub that can reach up to 4 m. Branches have a scale-like covering, are reddish-brown and redder near the tip, hence the common name (blood stick). Leaves are composite and arranged in terminal rosettes, pinnate, glabrous ...
Matorrisco tinerfeño (Lavandula buchii)
Small highly branched shrub, woody at base, which can reach 1 m, branches greyish-green towards the tip. Leaves are greyish-green or glaucous, pinnate, with broad flat lobes. Inflorescences of bluish flowers, located at the tip of long ...
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