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7.2.d Sardinia Tourism voyage in the Nature: flora on the coasts
Along the coasts of Sardinia there are many places to visit both for the people
that love the sea and for those that they are also interested in the nature.
In the 2003 springs we have visited Harbor Pino and the ecosystem of the dunes that it is found on the western coast,
after Cape Teulada, departing from Cagliari and going toward the north of Sardinia.
The zone is particularly rich of vegetation, among the ample dunes we have found numerous vegetable kinds and
the these pages you can find the photos and the descriptions of a part of the present flora in the coast south westerner of Sardinia.
Grass crystalline commune - Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.
Morfology: 10-80 centimeters this plants it grows hedge top to the ground, branched,
completely covered by loaded cells of water that they confer him a particular aspect,
almost bright, as she was covered by minuscule crystals of ice.
Soft stem, never completely erect. Leaves slightly ovate, sub-sharp, undulated,
fleshy long until 10 centimeters x 8 centimeters abundantly vanished of red in the seasons with scarce rain.
Flowers 2-4 centimeters, practically without shank (sessile), actually to 50 petals, thread-like, of white color,
pink pale, but also vanished of yellow gold, when the petals are closed they still introduce a light spin,
when they are opened they are longer than the sepals.
Photo FonteSarda Grass crystalline commune Mesembryantheumum crystallinum - May 2003
Notes: according to some authors rarely used in the salad and in past to obtain sodium
carbonate of it.
Habitat: Sandy coasts, salty steppes, often in concomitance with trees with needle-shaped
leaves. Period flowering: March July, annual, creeping.
Areas of growth: basin of the Mediterranean, Canary Islands and southern Africa.
Family: Aizoacee, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. (M. nodiflorum).
Flora in Sardinia Port Pino
Photo FonteSarda Grass crystalline commune Mesembryantheumum crystallinum - May 2003
In this photo it is well visible the due red tone to the lack of water.
Sardinia Vacations and tourist information
In Sardinia there are so many very beautiful places,
the nature has been prodigal in to distribute its creations, it is up to the people to love her and to respect her.
In spring the nature covers of color the hills and the show it continues in the blue of the sea.
To visit Sardinia is not alone beautiful, it is also a beautiful adventure for the one that has eyes to see, ears to feel and palate to taste.
Period of vacation recommended: from May until in September.
THE ANIMALS SYMBOL OF THE OASES WWF
SARDINIAN BUCK
One of the kinds symbol for the WWF, to which the acquisition of Arcosu Mountain is dedicated.
When the area was purchased in 1985, the present bucks were as soon as 70, have reached almost today 900 samples.
The population of Mountain Arcosu is one of the principal ones of Sardinia.
The Sardinian buck is present besides in a beautiful zone in the southeast of Sardinia.
ROE DEER (Capreolus capreolus)
A kind to which the WWF is very tied up. Symbol of the oasis of Vanzago,
is a presence that enriches a lot of our woods. It is also one of the animals to which the WWF is dedicating a lot of energies
to bring him in the areas in which he was practically extinct because of the indiscriminate hunting.
OTTER
Another kind to which the WWF is tied for a long time.
The oasis of Persano was also born for protecting one of the vital nucleuses of the Italian population
as the oasis of Vulci. To Pens one have also been realized some Centers Otter more important than Italy.
DUCKS
Thanks to a series of operations of introductions some kinds of wild ducks as the tufted duck tabaccata
(Aythya fuligula), rare kind and you return to nest in some lake oases of the WWF.
CAPOVACCAIO
The WWF guards a couple of it and he has created besides a Center of Semproniano reproduction (Grosseto).
Thanks to the Oases WWF a miraculous recovery of this small and splendid vulture is being tried.
MEADOW CHICKEN
And a rare and a little known bird, that risks to disappear because of the destruction of his habitat
(fields and steppes). So the WWF has bought the grounds of a site where it nests.
It foresees in one of the new Oases of Sardinia.
PELOBATE FOSCO (Dark)
One of the rarest amphibians and threatened, also because exclusive of the Lowland Padana.
The WWF has promoted a country of safeguard of it on more fronts since from 1987, with some centers of breeding.
THE FROG OF LATASTE
Other endemic kind of the Lowland Padana, to risk of extinction because of the destruction of the natural habitats.
Essential the maintenance of the present biotypes in the Lowland Padana.
The population more main point of Frog of Lataste lives in the Oases WWF Lombards and in that of Alvisopoli in Veneto.
TORTOISE OF HERMAN
Because of the location and of the sensitive decline in action of the present populations in nature,
in Italy the Tortoise of Herman is currently considered kind "in danger".
Her more serious threats to the survival of this repent very nice are mainly represented by the fires,
that every summer destroys thousand of hectares of zones to Mediterranean stain,
from the destruction by now almost complete of the coastal dunes, and from the collecting in nature for commercial or individual purposes.
MARSHY TORTOISE
Because of the destruction and of the decay of the damp environments, in a lot of Italian regions
the kind results to be extremely located and to risk.
The more important Italian nucleuses and numerically more consistent they are currently found in Sardinia
and in the areas marshy neighbors to the coasts of Veneto, of the Emilia Romagna, of Tuscany and of the Lazio.
THE PINK FLAMINGO
For Sardinia it dresses again a new and important role in fact the recent nest-buildings of the pink flamingos
in the damp zone of the Molentargius, 3000 chicks (Pulli) in the year 2002, have enriched together subsequently our
avifauna to other important nest-buildings as that of the rider of Italy,
of avocet (Recurvirostra avocet), of pintail (Dafila acute), of hawk of swamp, of royal eagle, of bittern;
the colonies of herons and the presence of rare kind as the Sardinian swallow-tail (Papilio machaon) awry Arcosu.
Translation date: 2003-2006 - Sardinia Information Section Flora and Fauna
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