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Saxifraga (Saxifraga maderensis var. maderensis)
Perennial herb or shrub, with a woody branched stem, often hanging. Leaves dark green, reniform to semi-circular, lobate and dentate, and up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers are white and more or less densely clustered in a terminal raceme. ...
Cerrajón herreño (Sonchus hierrensis)
Woody shrub, to 1.5 m tall. Leaves are dark green, long and many-lobed, lobes up to 2 cm wide, with serrate margins. The inflorescence is branched with numerous yellow flowers, 2-3 cm across. A native of El Hierro, La Palma and La Gomera, ...
Erva-branca, abrotona (Teucrium betonicum)
Small shrub, up to 1 m, with more or less woody branches that tend to be erect. Leaves up to 12 cm long and 4 cm wide, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, with crenate or dentate margins, light green on the top and whitish beneath. Flowers ...
Anís salvaje, anís de risco (Bupleurum salicifolium)
Woody shrub, highly branched, up to 2 m. Leaves linear-lanceolate, light green to glaucous, up to 10 cm long, 10 nerves more or less parallel. Inflorescences terminal, lax; umbels of 10-20 yellow flowers. Fruits are black or brown. Native ...
Gibalbera (Semele androgyna)
Perennial, climbing plant, cladodes (false leaves), alternate and glabrous, lanceolate to ovate. Flowers are greenish-yellow and small and emerge from the margins of the cladodes. Fruits are round, up to 1 cm in diameter, initially ...
Malfurada grande, malfurada (Hypericum grandifolium)
Woody shrub, up to 2 m, highly branched, with arched or curved stems. Leaves are elliptic to ovate, with a short leaf stalk, dark green and up to 8 cm long. Bright yellow flowers, 1.5-4 cm in diameter, arranged in terminal inflorescences. ...
Esparraguera común, esparraguera (Asparagus umbellatus)
Scrambling shrub, whose thin spineless stems can reach up to 5 m, when resting on trees. Cladodes (false leaves) are thin, short, pointed and dark green. Inflorescence, a simple umbel, with tiny white or whitish-yellow flowers. Fruits are ...
Sabina canaria (Juniperus turbinata ssp. canariensis)
Tree to around 6-8 m in height, the trunk sometimes leaning because of constant wind action. Adult leaves are scale-like, almost triangular, short and appressed, while those of young plants strongly resemble the needle-shaped leaves of ...
Acebiño, cárisco (Ilex canariensis)
Evergreen shrub or small tree, around 10-12 m tall, bark light greyish-brown and crown regularly branched. Leaves are ovate, glossy, 3-8 cm long, deep green on the top and light green underneath, margins usually entire or with some small ...
Mocoguirre (Senecio incrassatus)
Annual, small (less than 30 cm tall) short-lived herb or succulent shrub. Highly branched from the base, leaves up to 5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, very irregular, margins revolute. Flowers are arranged in terminal heads and are deep yellow. ...
Arcila (Pericallis steetzii)
Low herb (generally less than 50 cm tall), leaves broad, suborbicular, with ear-like projections at the base of the stalk. Inflorescences of numerous (7-25) flowers, with whitish or crimson-pink ligules. A native of La Gomera, it favours ...
Ajinajo, tajinaste (Echium aculeatum)
Densely branched, compact shrub, occasionally growing to over 1 m. Leaves linear, very hairy and spiny. Inflorescences more or less conical and composed of numerous white flowers. Endemic to the Canary Islands and found in abundance on ...
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