After The Rain

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

The tin can's fine - almost folksy after all the plastic - but really it gives some scale to the plant life. Great shots, Tamara. For the hairy lichen just surf lichens fuerteventura, and take your pick. Sorry about the messy post.

I know, plastic's everywhere. The tin will at least disappear in a couple of years, plastic is here forever. It just makes me sad to see rubbish almost everywhere we go. I'm absolutely sure Tamara cleaned the whole place up and spent at least half an hour filling bags with rubbish.

...messy post sorted  

spent the time yes, but only cleaned a tiny area

[waggy]

Corralejo dunes today - continued

I had hoped to spot a dune crocus (the proper name escapes me) and was delighted to see hundreds of them - far more than I've ever seen  before.

   

to my dismay when I got home and uploaded the pics I realised I had left the rusty tin where I found it.
If you go walking through the dunes please be very careful where you step, these crocus (and numerous other tiny plants) are almost invisible unless you are specifically looking for them.

[waggy]

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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/130079-...s-pandurus

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

My bug from the Dune Crocus pic - thanks Waggy!

Soldier Bug - Spilostethus pandurus

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Today's walk was down across Tindaya plains to the coast during the late afternoon. I went out in the hope of seeing houbaras but only saw the one, just as I got home again! However I saw more flowers than I could have possible imagined. What appear to be barren, stony fields are actually full of flowers - you just need to leave the car behind and look where you are walking. I never cease to be amazed at the resilience of these plants, most of which stay very low presumably to avoid the worst of the wind. They continued right up to the edge of the cliffs so are obviously able to cope with the salt as well.

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Sunday's walk to Tindaya coast cont:



I believe this is some form of wild onion that is very poisonous but I can't recall the name.

Tough as old boots Agave, with lethal spines on the ends of the leaves. The flower stems/trunks are used locally as roofing and scaffolding poles and ladders and at this time of year they are decorated as Christmas trees.

still looking very green in the end of the barranco.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Since Waggy explained what the snails were up to I've been seeing them everywhere!   

and the vetch is carpeting the sides of the roads.

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The 'shin shredder' has now developed little orange berries:


A quite common succulent, grows rapidly:

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Spotted 2 or 3 specimens of this plant in the last couple of days in Tindaya but it has taken many hours to track down the name: Dipcadi serotine (brown bluebell).
I thought of the colour as a dull orange so was using the wrong search terms.



seen all over the place, lovely little mounds of foliage and flower:


just outside the wall bordering the Mirador de Vallebron and in the scree at the sides of the road, loads of purple/blue echium and the wild onion (possible a squill):