Wall Rock-Cress ...
... Arabis caucasia
Tree Heath ...
... Erica arborea
Maritime Campion ...
... Silene uniflora
Silene Sp.
Common Iceplant ...
... Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Slenderleaf Iceplant ...
... Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum
This page is part of Linda's collection of Insular Flowers. We think this is interesting because islands inevitably have many endemic (sole location) species.
The Insular Flowers collection is a companion to Linda's collection of photographs of >550 species of Alpine Flowers, primarily from Europe.
This page contains flowers of Madeira, in the same colour sequence as the Alpine Flowers pages:
Click on any image to see a larger version
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Wall Rock-Cress ... |
... Arabis caucasia |
Tree Heath ... |
... Erica arborea |
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Maritime Campion ... |
... Silene uniflora |
Silene Sp. |
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Common Iceplant ... |
... Mesembryanthemum crystallinum |
Slenderleaf Iceplant ... |
... Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum |
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Downy Stonecrop ... |
... Aichryson villosum |
Viscid Houseleek ... |
... Aonium glutinosum |
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Disc Houseleek ... |
... Aonium glandulosum ... |
... in flower ... |
... and cropped |
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Unid'd Yellow Flower ... |
... cropped ... |
... cropped again |
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A Thistle ... |
... cropped |
Blue Birdsfoot Trefoil ... |
... Lotus glaucus |
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Erysimum bicolour ... |
... cropped ... |
... cropped again |
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Tufted Vetch ... |
... Vicia cracca |
Thistles |
Pitch Trefoil Bituminaria bituminosa |
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Echium candicans ... |
... dominant ... |
... emblematic ... |
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... scenic ... |
... the island's summit ... |
... Pico Grande, the day's target |
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Convulvulus Sp. ... |
... cropped |
Rock Orchid ... |
... Orchis scopulorum |
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Moss |
Dragon Tree |
Bonus: Geraniums along the Levada |
This is a page within the Clarke-Spinaze Insular Flower Photo Gallery. The site home-page is here
Contact: Linda or Roger
Created: 12 April 2020; Last Amended: 14 April 2020