Flora ornamental del casco historico de La Laguna, patrimonio de la humanidad. 2005. col. photogr. 407 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

The ancient city core of the Canary Island's university town, San Cristobal La Laguna, has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO-Nineteen green spaces of La Laguna were inventoried to write this particular kind of Flora. All are shown and described in the book's first part. The second, larger portion presents the 129 species that were encountered. As its title implies, it is not a complete floristicinventory but limits itself to decorative plants. No weeds were admittednor have seasonal plantations been taken into account (which may explainthe absence of Cyclamen persicum, featuring on the Photographs of pp. 95and 293). With the exception of Selaginella kraussiana, all speciesare at least tall herbs, mostly shrubs, trees or vines. There are fournative plants among them that are tolerated rather than planted, growingwild on roofs and old walls: Aeonium urbicum, Davallia canariensis, Polypodium macaronesicum, and Sonchus acaulis. Other members of Tenerife's old endemic stock, however, are cultivated ornamentals:Apollonias barbujana, Convolvulus floridus, Dracaena draco, Kleinianeriifolia, Laurus novocanariensis, and Phoenix canariensis.