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Dragonera Island Flora  
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The vegetation of sa Dragonera termófilas conforms Mediterranean communities, mainly Garriga. Some shrubs characteristic of this great vegetation are lechetreznas - lletreres -, labiérnago - aladern of fulla estreta- and olivillo - olivella-.Tiempo does that the pine occupied a great extension, but in years 30 was cut by the proprietors of the island. The fact that today pines do not cut themselves has caused that this formation is now in expansion process.
- the rocky crags. They are extremely important habitats with respect to the originality and the florística wealth of the Balearic Islands. Many endemismos are exclusive of the landings and the fissures of rocky crags, the rocky places, the riscales, the slides and pebbles. the plants that live in these atmospheres receive the name of rupícolas plants. Good part of the species that we found here has made of these places refuges where these do not undergo the pressure of the herbívoros; if there were not ewes and, mainly, goats, we would see that, with the passage of time, some would become relatively frequent earth plants.
Some examples of showy flowers are col embroiders, manzanilla bastard - maçanella - and the violet of penyal, that is not a violácea, as its popular name seems to indicate, but that it belongs to the family of the beans and other vegetables. They are possible also to be seen individual of palmito - garballó -, hung in these walls. The plant had to extend formerly by good part of the island, but the pressure that suffered during the years in which craftsman looked for to it for the use causes that now she is exclusive of also acantilados.En rocks can distinguish great spots of white color and pumpkin. They are not more than líquenes (vegetal organisms formed by the symbiosis of an alga and a fungus) that survives on these rocks, with no need of earth, thanks to the luminance energy of the sun and the rainwater or of the dew that contributes dissolved mineral substances. Other represented communities affluent: The rocky zone more coast is colonized by plants adapted to the loaded winds of salt that come from the sea. The siemprevivas, hinojo sailor and coixinets of nun (Astragalus balearicus) are abundant in the strip next to the zone of influence of the splashes of the waves. Also plants of ruderal strategy (adapted to elevated environmental disturbances) in the environs of the human constructions, ways and fields of dry land culture can be observed.