Flowers of Crete

Time 2020-12-19 19:05:06

Web Name: Flowers of Crete

WebSite: http://www.flowersofcrete.info

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WELCOME to the Flowers of Crete website Flowers of Crete encourages interest in Crete's wild flowers and promotes their conservation. Flowers of Crete holidays and courses for 2020 Holidays for 2020 with Flowers of Crete are now available. These include sunset and flowers trip from Elounda/Aghios Nikolaos, botanic art workshop and flower finding in March and late orchids in May. More information about our trips on our holidays page. March flower of the month Bellevalia juliana I discovered this lovely little flower for the first time on a wet and windy hillside above Elounda about 15 years ago. sine then it has been found in one other site, again close to Elounda. It has been recorded as a new species and declared endemic and vulnerable. I was honoured by Popi Bareka and Nick Turland by having it named for me. News PlantaEuropa is looking for illustrative case studies from European countries, including Greece/Crete, If you would like more information contact Mykyta Peregrym. Read more Oliver Rackham 'commemorative symposium': to celebrate the life of landscape historian and author of The Making of the Cretan Landscape, who died last year, there was a commemorative symposium in the UK (Cambridge) in August 2016. More in news. Bellevalia juliana: a new flower for Crete, named after Flowers of Crete founder, Julia Jones. More in news. Photoset of Bellevalia juliana by Stephen Lenton on Facebook here. Cretan fritillary is an endemic subspecies found only on the island, according to research at the University of Patras. See news here Conserving the Cretan Lizard Orchid. Himantoglossum samariense (right) is one of Crete's most elusive and threatened plants. Julia Jones from Flowers of Crete describes recent efforts to find and protect it - read the full story here. Getting started with Crete's wonderful flowers With some 1700 species of flowers native to Crete, of which 10 per cent are endemic, you may wonder where to start. One way is to click on the photos below. You can find out what these flowers are, and see our Flowers of Crete introductory web pages ... Saving the Cretan Palm The Cretan palm Phoenix theophrastii is found only on the coast of Crete and south-western Turkey, and on Crete is best known from Vai and Préveli. The red palm weevil, sadly sometimes imported on cultivated palm species, is a serious threat to the near-endemic Cretan palm and every effort needs to be taken to try to stop its progress. You can help by keeping an eye out of the weevil and its grubs and reporting news to Flowers of Crete. More here.

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Flowers of Crete is a not for profit organisation interested in the conservation of the flora of the Greek island of Crete. Featuring photographs by Julia Jones the site includes information about the local area, flower walks and links to other local organisations.

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