Rocks and Walls   1   2

Fumaria aff. gaillardotii, Papaveraceae, Famagusta Walls

Rosularia sp. Kantara Castle

 
    Walls and rocks have a rich flora. Growing in fortifications of plain cities you can find Fumaria a strange shrubby leguminosae (see seeds & vegetalia) and Hyoscyamus aureus a toxic Solanaceae probably naturalised since the crusade times. Pentadactylon tops are rocky; this is where the crusade castles are standing: Buffavento, St Hilarion & Kantara. Growing in the walls and rocks you can find the same sp. as in lowland walls accompanied by a few endemics such as St Hilarion cabbage (Brassica hilarionis); two Rosularia (rosette forming Crassulaceae, not unlike Sempervivum), a Sedum and Arabis cypria looking like a pink-tinged version of Arabis caucasica.