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CHANIA (Prefecture) CRETE
The climate and the configuration of the land make the county of Hania
a paradise for thousands of plants and animals. The lilys of the sea (pancratium
maritimum), the lavdano (lavdanum), the cyclamen (cyclamen creticum), the Cretan
tulips (tulipa cretica), the maple (acer creticus) and chiefly the endemic and
unique dittany (origanum dictamum) and malotira (fideritis cretica), which, with
matzourana (origanum maiorana), are medicinal boiling plants which are abundant.
On the plain of Omalos you
can find stamnagathi (cihorium spinosum).
Dried or freshly cut, these special medicinal verbs can be found in the Public
Market or local shops.
You can find over 200 unique Cretan plants, 30% of which exist only
in the county of Hania.
(Text: Dr. Anastasia Kalpaki-Georgoulaki)
This text (extract) is cited December 2003 from the Chania
Prefecture Tourism Committee tourist pamphlet (2002)
SAMARIA (National Park) CHANIA
Among the well-known flora species, you find the perennial gigantic
cyresses once used in shipbuilding and the construction of the pillars of the
Palace of Knossos by the
Minoans, etc.
There is a total of 450 species of Cretan flora in the gorge, of which
70 are endemic, i.e. they grow in the gorge only.
(Text: Antonis Plymakis)
This text (extract) is cited February 2004 from the Chania
Prefecture Tourism Committee tourist pamphlet.
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