The Plants on Sunny Madeira

The Madeira Islands, an archipelago 750 miles southwest of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean, have a nearly perfect climate, warm in winter and never too warm in summer. You can enjoy Madeira´s beautiful flowers throughout the year. Madeira has one of the best preserved vegetation of Macaronesia. The native flora, called Palearctic by botanists, is akin to the northwest of Europe, and the seeds here been brought by the wind, the birds and the ocean currents. About 16% of Madeira´s plants are endemic or in other words, these plants exist only in Madeira Island and will not be found in any other place in the world.

Hibiscus

Scadoxus puniceus

tibouchina urvilleana

Scadoxus puniceus

Kalanchoe daigremontiana

Echium candicans

Passiflora mollissima

Spathodea campanulata

Acacia dealbata

Dracenaceae

Solandra maxima

Madeira bananas

Mesembryanthemum crystallinium

Agapanthus

Senecio petasites

Salvia leucantha

Echium Nervosum

Kigelia africana

Callistemon Bottlebrush

Cherimoya

Paw Paw

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