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Corvo (17 km2) is the smallest island in the Azores. Along with Flores, it comprises the westernmost group of the archipelago, which is located over the North American tectonic plate, on the other side of the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Maximum ...
Graciosa is the northernmost island of the central group of the Azores. It is the second smallest (61 km2) at just 12.5 km long and 8.5 km wide. An island of gently sloping terrain, it is also the lowest (the highest point is Pico Timão, ...
A short fleshy plant, composed of flat basal rosettes of fragrant spathulate leaves with rounded tips. Flowers are subsessile, bright yellow, arranged in a somewhat dense inflorescence. This endemic of La Gomera grows on rocky surfaces ...
Rather branched, woody shrub that can reach up to 1.5-2 m tall. Branches firm, with spines. Leaves are cordate, ovate or ovate-rhomboidal, 8-15 cm long, dark green on top, light green and felted beneath. Flowers are terminal, dark lilac ...
Perennial herbs or shrubs, with leaves clustered in a basal rosette. Leaves are entire, large (up to 30 cm long), oblanceolate to narrowly ovate. Flower stems are winged, with blue-mauve flowers. Native to Tenerife, relegated to the Anaga ...
Woody shrub, to 1.5 m, branching from the base. Leaves are sessile, bi-pinnatisect, with linear-lanceolate segments, usually dentate at the tip. Flowers are bright yellow, numerous and arranged in dense clusters. Fruits (pods) contain 16 ...
Shrub up to 1.5 m, highly branched. Leaves of three leaflets, obovate to elliptic, 2-4 cm long. Flowers creamy-white, with dark veins, terminal. Glabrous (without hair) calyx. Endemic to the Canaries and found throughout the islands ...
Woody shrub that can reach up to 2 m tall. Leaves are pinnate, light green, lobes linear to rhomboidal. Flowers are bright yellow, petals small, margins ciliate. Fruits are somewhat rounded orangey-brown capsules. This species is a native ...
Compact woody shrublet, generally scrambling or low (to 60 cm), often semi-spherical. Branches are firm with pointed spines. Leaves are small, densely pubescent, glaucous or greyish-green, oblanceolate to spathulate. Flowers are solitary, ...
Very woody shrub, densely branched, with firm branches, up to 2 m. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, dark green, without glands, margins dentate-crenate, up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers are small and yellowish-green. Fruits are round, ...
Well-developed, tall tree, dense foliage, which can grow up to 30-40 m in ideal conditions. Bark is dark and rough, with thick lenticels (corky spots). Leaves are oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 5-12 cm long, dark green, shiny, with two or ...
Plant with a woody base, sometimes scrambling or slightly ascending. Leaves small (up to 1 cm long), lanceolate to ovate, very fleshy, pubescent, greyish-green or silvery-green. Inflorescences are terminal and many-flowered; flowers are ...
