Canary Island Native Plants and landscape

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Euphorbia balsamifera

Looking up the slope (Who would guess the ocean is near?)

Looking down (from same spot more or less)

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Oh yeah, I have no idea what plant that is 3 photos up from this one.

Another Euphorbia balsamifera:

They aren't native, but look pretty much wild. Ficus carica

Euphorbia canariensis

What are houses doing here?? Pretty remote place in Anaga

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What is this?

A wild Drago!

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A rather cool Euphorbia canariensis

The rock dweller

Looking for Dragons

Can you spot the Drago?

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I get it I get it, you've been here

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aeonium canariensis? I heard these swell up in the winter

Some more Aeniums

Check out those stilt roots!

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Non native figs. I wish I figured out the ISO on my camera before these pics

Nice road...

Tons of Euphorbia canariensis on Carlo's property

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Some smaller ones

All the dry hills were covered by these

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Looks like Manhattan

Aeniums again

I don't know if the red ones are the same species?

Another Rock Dweller... dunno what it is though

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At the top of a ridge in Anaga.

Look familiar?

Looking down Carlo's property

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Weird bulb

Can you see the footprints in the stone? (On the right side)

Welcome path through Euphorbia canariensis

Methesulah Ficus carica growing wild

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Planta desconocido

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Otra

Rock Dweller again

Growing under an overhang??

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Weird vine-like fern

Leaves

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Wait sorry, the leaves are from a different fern on the islands. I should have just stuck with palms

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Anaga at night

Punto Hidalgo

You see more of these than people in the Canary Islands

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Cauliflower look alike?

EL Drago

EL Drago again and a tall Phoenix canariensis

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Now to El Hierro

Lauriselva? (Laurel Jungle)

Aeonium valverdense (?)

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Cloud forest

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Great host and his daughter and adoptee. (Carlos Simon)

About 50% of the island (El Hierro) can be seen in this picture

Ni puta idea. No idea what this is

Cool Aeonium

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Cool Amorphophallus-like plant

The cliff we climbed down, with a Pinus canariensis

The coast of El Hierro

Life is hard

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It's flat and goes straight up. Pretty cool

Cliffs on El Hierro

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Sooooo.....

THIS is what you are doing in college....

Great photos Kyle!

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Span of El Hierro

Back to Tenerife.

Check out this road!

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Forest of Pinus canariensis

Inside the other Hawaiian like Crater in the world

Teide

Some places aren't so hospitable for plants

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Fog

Take off

In Flight

Pine forest

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Road digesters:

I think this is the Euphorbia

Euphorbia... balsamifera (In the north part of Tenerife though)

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Fire damage

La Galeria

That's all for the scene and native plant photos. I have some more, but they are repetitive. If I find more I'l post them

[Kris]

Dear kyle  

my special thanks for such an extensive coverage of that beautiful island.really your are are great photographer too..

i sense it.

it was nothing shot of a national geographic or discovery channel kind of exclusive coverage,fentastic & very exocitic looking plants seen growing in the wild and rich & abandont

lavornic soil(black grade)..to be very frank with you i have never seen such beautiful land in my entire life.from now on

i must be able to see god in my dreams in these exocitic locations...

I think even you will also never forget your visit to this botanical Biospear.i must say you are a very lucky person to be there...

And by the way the dragon tree stills are mouthwatering since its also very close to my heart like the CIDP'S.

thanks & love,

Kris  

[deezpalms]

Kyle, great shots again!!! I love the foggy pictures and how are you above the cloud line?? The weird bulb looks like a pregnant onion or Ornithogalum longibracteatum.

[Peter]

Thanks for the photos Kyle!

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Thanks. I went above the cloud line at the Teide National Park. It was very cool that day since the level of the clouds was practically flat so it looked like a lake or ocean.

[Carlo Morici]

Kyle,

I am back in Tenerife and now I can see the beautiful pictures. Here are some requested names:

Post 1 pic 2: is Launaea arborescens

Post 3 pic 1: Kleinia nerifolia

Post 4 pic 2: The "rock dweller" is Aeonium lindleyi

Post 6 1+2: Aeonium canariensis

Post 6 pic 3: Aeonium urbicum

POst 9 2+3: Aeonium canariensis, it gets reddish when too exposed.

POst 9 pic 4: Aeonium lindleyi

Post 11: the bulb is Urginea maritima

Post 14; 1: fern: Davallia canariensis

Post 14; 2: fern Adiantum reniforme

Post 15; the lizard is Gallotia gallotii

POst 21: Dracunculus canariensis, Araceae

Post 27 Pic2: Euphorbia obtusifolia

Hasta luego,

Carlo

[Gbarce]

Kyle - Great Pictures!! It felt like I went on vacation going through your album.

Must have been tempting to jump ino those clouds

[Carlo Morici]

It is el "mar de nubes", the sea of clouds. It stays there almost every day during the trade wind season (April-August). It is what makes the northern coast cooler and cloudier. It seldom rains beneath, it just stays.

Look in google images: "mar de nubes" tenerife

Pinelands and alpine desert occur above the cloud line. The laurisilva, monteverde or cloud forest occurs chiefly within the cloud layer, other mediterranean-like types of scrubland or woodland occur beneath. The southern coasts generally lack the mar de nubes.

Carlo