Government Pavilion, C/ Padre Herrera s/n
P.O. Box 456
38200, San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Spain
Switchboard Tel.: (+34) 922 31 90 00
Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
This plot of land aims to recreate the Thermophilic Forest, considered the most degraded of the vegetation zones in the Canary Islands. This type of forest can be found in very few places in Tenerife.
This plot has been planted primarily with Canary Island juniper, Juniperus turbinata Guss. subsp. canariensis, with the aim of recreating the Canary Island juniper woodland, a highly degraded forest in the archipelago. In this case, the junipers are being trained to twist and turn, a clear allusion to the beautiful juniper forest of La Dehesa, on the island of El Hierro.
The Canary juniper is a tree that can reach a large size, varying its forms from an umbrella-shaped or rounded-crowned tree to the most twisted ones due to the impact of the trade winds.


Specimen of Canary juniper in the Central Park (left) and specimen twisted by the effect of the wind in the natural environment (right).
Anagyris latifolia Brouss. former Willd.
Apollonias barbujana (Cav.) A. Braun
Artemisia thuscula Cav.
Bencomia caudata (Aiton) Webb & Berthel.
Convolvulus perraudieri Coss.
Convolvulus floridus L. f.
Dorycnium broussonetii (Choisy ex Ser. in DC.) Webb & Berthel.
Dracaena draco (L.) L. subsp. draco
Echium simplex DC.
Echium strictum L. f. subsp. strictum
Echium virescens DC.
Erysimum virescens (Webb ex Christ) Wettst.
Euphorbia aphylla Brouss. former Willd.
Euphorbia atropurpurea Brouss. exWilld.
Ferula linkii Webb
Globularia salicina Lam.
Gonospermum fruticosum (Buch) Less.
Helianthemum broussonetii Dunal
Hypericum canariense L.
Jasminum odoratissimum L.
Juniperus turbinata Guss. subsp. canariensis (AP Guyot in Mathou & AP Guyot) Rivas-Mart., Wildpret & P. Pérez
Lavandula buchii Webb
Lavandula canariensis Mill.
Lavatera acerifolia Cav.
Limonium arboreum (Willd.) Erben, A. Santos & Reyes-Bet.
Limonium macrophyllum (Brouss. ex Spreng.) Kuntze
Marceletella moquiniana (Webb & Berthel.) Svent.
Navaea phoenicea (Vent.) Webb & Berthel.
Olea cerasiformis Rivas-Mart. & of the Arch
Periploca laevigata Aiton
Phoenix canariensis H. Wildpret
Pistacia lentiscus L.
Pistacia atlantica Desf.
Pterocephalus dumetorus (Brouss. ex Willd.) Coult.
Rumex lunaria L.
Salvia canariensis L.
Sonchus acaulis Dum. Cours.
Teucrium heterophyllum L`Hér. subsp. brevipilosum Gaisberg