Canary Islands Flora Garden
Canary Islands Flora Garden
Canary Islands Flora Garden
The Canary Islands are home to a great diversity of habitats with different types of native vegetation resulting from various waves of colonization. Associated with these is a rich flora with a high proportion of endemic species. This high biodiversity gives the archipelago a prominent position within the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot.
Marcelino del Arco Aguilar (Professor of Botany at the ULL)
The hotspot Biodiversity hotspots of the planet are those regions that contain a very rich endemic biodiversity, and that also have a high percentage of threatened biodiversity.
Hotspots or hotspots of global biodiversity. Fountain
The Canary Islands are home to a very unique flora that, after arriving on the islands, began a complex evolutionary process. Waves of colonization have occurred constantly, not only from the mainland to the archipelago, but also in the opposite direction, as is suspected to have been the case with the genus Echium, to which the tajinastes belong, and which is currently under study.
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