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The Department of Environment and Urban Quality recover the more than 30 species of trees that existed in this iconic green
A garden of today with the usual flora.
The Department of Environment and Urban Quality, aware of the tremendous educational value of plant diversity of the gardens and consistent with the idea of empowering some city parks and botanical gardens, will take steps to recover the largest possible number of species which once were planted in the Garden of the Malecon and, over the years and by several circumstances, had been disappearing.
Thus, in a first phase, the Parks and Gardens have proceeded to prepare a list of 33 tree species and tree that have grown in the garden in recent decades in order to purchase, although some are not commonly traded species and perhaps offer some difficulty obtaining.
The list of species to recover it:
Cyclops Acacia (Acacia coast): species introduced from Australia in the Canary Islands
Acacia dealbata (Mimosa Acacia): originally from Australia and Tasmania
Retinodes Acacia (Acacia silver) Your place of origin is Australia
Acacia saligna (Acacia blue): A small tree of the Fabaceae family, native to Australia.
Brachychiton discolor (Brachichito pink): Native to Australia, up to 30 feet tall featuring pink flowers without petals
Callistemon viminalis (weeping pipe cleaner): Native to Australia, small tree 6-7 m tall.
Flexible and hanging branches (hence the "weeping")
Bignonioides Catalpa (Catalpa) originating in the southern United States.
9 to 12 m in height and crown diameter of 5 to 8 meters.
Fast growing.
Citrus medica (Cidrera): Its origin is in Southeast Asia.
The ciders are used for making jams and liqueurs.
Cocculus laurifolius (Cocula): India, Himalayas, Malaysia, China, Japón.Sus leaves are ovate, 12-15 cm.
long, ribbed, bright green.
Corynocarpus laevigatus (Laurel, New Zealand): In New Zealand the fruits are eaten by the Maori.
Dais cotinifolia (fringe tree) is a small South African tree.
It blooms profusely during the months of Varano and produces a multitude of globular flower heads sweet fragrance of approximately 10 cm wide
Elaeagnus angustifolia (tree of heaven), its leaves are similar to the olive tree, native to western and central Asia, from the south and Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey
Erythrina caffra (coral tree): South Africa.
Reach of 3.5 to 7.18 m high, with thorny branches
Eucalyptus ficifolia (Red gum), a native of a small area of the south coast of Western Australia.
Its flowers may have some shades of pale cream, pink, orange or deep crimson
Eucalyptus gunnii (Cider Gomero): Originally from Tasmania, is an evergreen tree that can exceed 30 meters in length.
Ficus cyathistipula (Higuera africana): From Tropical Africa, is a tree of 3-4 meters.
Ficus elastica (Rubber Tree): A native of the Malay Archipelago, in the wild reaches 30 feet or more
Fraxinus angustifolia (narrow-leaved ash): Native to North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
Fast-growing deciduous tree with intense flowering
Fraxinus excelsior (Common Ash): From Europe to Asia Minor.
Its usual height is 8 to 12 meters, but is up to 40 meters
Juglans regia (Walnut) from Persia (Himalayan region), according to some authors, or China and Japan, according to others.
Tree vigorous 24 to 27 meters high and its trunk can reach 3 to 4 meters in diameter
Lagerstroemia indica (Tree of Jupiter): In China.
Small tree or large shrub, deciduous.
The Tree of Jupiter is widely used in landscaping for its abundant flowering pink, red, lilac, purple in summer.
Enduring.
Parkinsonia aculeata (Espinillo) invasive species in Australia, tropical Africa, Hawaii and other Pacific islands.
Reaches 2 to 8 feet high.
Persea americana (Avocado): Native to Mexico and then spread to the West Indies.
Extremely vigorous tree (trunk with branches strong vigorous), can reach 30 m in height
Pistacia terebinthus (Cornicabra): Mediterranean species.
Shrub or small tree up to 5 meters high.
Flowers in bouquets, red, appearing with the leaves from March to April
Pittosporum angustifolium: Species native to Australia, very ornamental for its elegant foliage pendant.
Shrub or small tree often dioecious, glabrous totally up to 6 m.
high, with the branches hanging
Pittosporum undulatum (Sweet Pittosporum): Originally from the east coast of Australia.
Tree that grows to 15 feet tall and produces orange fruits
Podocarpus neriifolius (Podocarpo oleander leaf): The natural area is extensive, from the Himalayas to China, Southeast Asia and New Guinea.
Rare and original
Prosopis chilensis (Algarrobo Chile): Originally from Central Chile, southern Peru and western Argentina.
The pulp of its fruit is medicinal
Psidium guajava (Guayabero): A native of tropical America.
From the Greek "psidion" grenade, the apparent semejaza between fruit.
Usually does not exceed 5 m in height.
Schinus lentiscifolius (Molle gray): A native of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.
Evergreen tree 4-6 meters high, with leafy crown and trunk more or less twisted
Sesbania punicea (Sesbania): A native of Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina.
Shrub 2-3 meters high.
Very decorative and flowering.
Solanum mauritianum (Tabaquillo): From Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay.
Evergreen shrub or small tree, 3-6 meters high.
Flowers pale lilac to purple
Tilia tomentosa (Silver Linden): Species native to the Balkans, Hungary and Russia and Southwest Anatolia.
Vigorous tree up to 30 meters.
White or yellowish flowers and fragrant.
The Parks and Gardens technicians are already negotiating with a local nursery this acquisition thirty species and have developed a planting plan, which includes for each location in the garden depending on the size that it will acquire with the passing of years and their lighting needs.
Then, once established planting, shall be placing identification tags similar to those that already have some of the trees of the garden.
The Department intends to continue this initiative, and then proceed with the trees recover all shrubs and shrub species that once adorned the Garden Pier.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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