Laurisilva

The laurel forest of El Hierro is reduced to small patches and mostly substituted by the Myrica-Erica scrub after degradation by man. Especially in the NE of the island it was cleared and changed into pastures. The fern in the foreground is Dryopteris oligodonta.

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