The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change has taken another big step towards the conservation of the endemic flora of the Azores!

Aug. 5, 2021

For the first time, the Faial Botanic Garden has been cultivating the Angelica lignescens species, in its collection of native and endemic plants of the Azores.

The germination tests for this species took place at the Azores Seed Bank, within the Conservation Ex-situ* action of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, which will conserve this and other species, included in the Habitats Directive, whose populations are in a state of conservation unfavorable.

In this specific case, Angelica lignescens, a rare plant endemic to the Archipelago, grows above 500-600 meters in altitude, preferably in wet or waterlogged habitats, such as the habitat of alpine and subalpine streams that is represented in the Faial Botanical Garden and includes rare and large endemic herbaceous plants.

In this world of endemic giants, the high humidity and availability of nutrients, low light and relief allow herbaceous species to grow in height, something that is common on islands, some of them reaching 3.5 meters in height, as is the case with angelica.

Visit us and get to know this and other rare species that are being cultivated in the Azores Native and Endemic Plants Collection.

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With the financial support of the LIFE Program of the European Union.

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