The flora of the Amalfi Coast

The flora of the Amalfi Coast

The flora of the Amalfi Coast

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The Coast began to be filled in the Middle Ages when some people settled there to escape the dramatic events in the interior plains had been the scene: the invasions of the visigoths and vandals, and sieges, the looting, famine and plagues of Gothic war.The Amalfi Coast has an extraordinary richness and variety of plant species, within a few square kilometers, the sharp drop from the sea to hills and mountains, the green changes its appearance to change the type of vegetation.Variable is the climate: many microclimates can be detected originated from moisture caused by torrential streams and different altitudes.We are therefore in the presence of an environmental framework is extremely complex, partly due to the nature and partly by man coexist where natural vegetation and crops typical of a cultural landscape. Carob and wild olive, wild products of an arid climate and a calcareous soil with little surface water are recognized in the strip of territory between

Punta Campanella and Amalfi, where there are also myrtle, mastic and bay leaves, alternating with the citrus crop.Another tree species is the applicant's oak, typical of the Mediterranean, thanks to the adaptive capacity, is developed in the hillsides and fresh recordings of the more narrow ground, and its landscape importance is the integration with other cultures, being able to extend from the sea at the edge of chestnut, with a role of "mending" of the landscape green.The areas where the holm oak thrives today are used for the cultivation of olives and vines that are favorable opportunities for development. Other species are the strawberry, phillyrea, the heather, juniper and oak.A third category of land cover is the Neapolitan alder, oak and Turkey oak, and its lower limit is higher than the ilex and beech forest, which exists only in the area on the slopes of the mountains Lattari. This band is present in large areas of the chestnut wood used also to derive from the young plants pilings for citrus and vineyards.On the rocky slopes and more exposed to sea winds, the vegetation is further reduced, giving way to scrubland, an association of low shrubs and herbs such as rosemary, holly, sage, savory, rue, everlasting.

The numerous canyons that crisscross the landscape of the Amalfi Coast have surprised quite extraordinary. Formed by ancient faults and deeply eroded by the weather these narrow valleys and water-rich appear shady and humid with a surprisingly lush vegetation. Back, from Amalfi, the Valley of the Mills and then forwarded to the Valle delle Ferriere, seems to discover, a unique phenomenon of climate reversal, a corner of the tropics, a habitat typical of temperate areas at higher altitudes. It is the realm of Woodwardia radicans, a rare example of pre-glacial flora, only now typical of tropical areas of Southeast Asia, which coexists with the Parnassia palustris white flowers, the orchid flower similar Arisarum Proboscideum from the Pesasites Hibridus, the small pitcher Pinguicola hirtiflora, with its sticky leaves, tending to a deadly trap small insects.

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