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Wednesday 30 September 2015

Limonium cyprium (Meikle) Hand & Buttler - Λειµόνειο το υπόλευκο υποείδ. το κύπριο - Endemic to Cyprus


Endemic to Cyprus
Ενδημικό της βόρειας και δυτικής παραλιακής ζώνης της Κύπρου
Limonium is a genus of about 600 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin līmōnion, used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek leimon (λειμών, 'meadow')

Photos Gialousa 17/11/2014  and Cape Greco 1/4/2016 by George Konstantinou












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