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Cardoncillo gris (Ceropegia fusca)
Succulent, stems cylindrical and jointed, greyer and thicker than those of Ceropegia dichotoma, flowers reddish-brown. Species exclusive to Gran Canaria and Tenerife. Part of lowland xerophytic vegetation and highly characteristic of ...
Dama de Tenerife (Parolinia intermedia)
Erect shrub, compact, highly branched, woody, stems covered with star-shaped hairs. Leaves linear-lanceolate, greyish-green. Numerous flowers, terminal or subterminal, whitish-pink. Fruits (pods) capsular, less than 2 cm long, each valve ...
Retamón canario (Teline canariensis)
Shrub, to 3-4 m, erect and highly branched, evergreen foliage, stalks dark grey. Leaves are trifoliate, greyish-green, small, leaflets obovate or round, very downy beneath. Inflorescences are borne in terminal racemes of numerous bright ...
Codeso de cumbre (Adenocarpus viscosus)
Dense, viscous, highly branched shrub. Leaves petiolate, short and densely fascicled, dark green. Flowers are yellow, the calyx with glandular papillae. Legume has sparse hairs and is equally papillous. A native of the Canaries, ...
Jasmineiro branco (Jasminum azoricum)
Perennial shrub, stems erect or intertwining with other plants. Leaves are opposite, trifoliate, dark green, subcoriaceous, with tiny leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 9 cm long and 5 cm wide. Flowers are white, fragrant and ...
Cila da Madeira (Scilla maderensis var. maderensis)
Herb to 50 cm tall, with a large bulb. Leaves (6-10) are glabrous, green or glaucous, up to 40 cm long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate and are shed in summer (geophyte). Flowers are lilac-blue, odourless and small, and clustered in a ...
Ensaião, farrobo, saião (Aeonium glutinosum)
Perennial shrublet (up to 1 m tall), generally highly branched and sticky to the touch. Leaves obovate-spathulate, up to 12 cm long and 5 cm wide, succulent, yellowish-green, glossy and arranged in terminal rosettes. Flowers are golden, ...
Ensaião (Aichryson divaricatum)
Annual or biennial herb, up to 60 cm. Totally glabrous, with a dark green stem and dichotomous (opposite) branching. Leaves are entire, glossy and rather succulent, rhomboidal or rhomboidal-orbicular. Flowers are small and yellow, and ...
Perado, naranjero salvaje de Madeira (Ilex perado ssp. perado)
Tree to 8-10 m (generally small), evergreen, highly branched, smooth, light grey-brown trunk. Leaves are tough, dark green, up to 9.7 cm long and 6.4 cm wide, varying in shape (obovate to oblong), mucronate, shiny, margins not spiny or ...
Piorno (Teline maderensis var. maderensis)
Evergreen shrub, tall (to 6 m) and robust, leaves trifoliate light or greyish-green. Inflorescences terminal, arranged in 6-12 bright yellow flowers. Fruits are legumes with sinuate margins, up to 40 mm long and 8 mm wide. Found in rocky ...
Leituga (Sonchus ustulatus)
Perennial plant, up to 30 cm, herbaceous with a woody base, either stemless or with a short stem. Leaves arranged in rosettes, very irregular, pinnatipartite to pinnatisect, subsessile and light green or glaucous. Few floral heads, ...
Trevina (Lotus glaucus ssp. glaucus)
Creeping or close-growing, highly branched perennial. Leaves rather succulent, with tiny leaflets (up to 5 mm), obovate, elliptic or spathulate. Flowers terminal, arranged in clusters of 1-5, yellowish or orangey, occasionally with ...
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