Cabezón del Teide flower or CHEIROLOPHUS TEYDIS
Shrub up to m. high, very branched from the base. Whole leaves, linear-lanceolate, roughly serrated and sticky to the touch and light green. Lonely, conical floral chapters, from which pale yellow or cream florets arise, all at the end of long, numerous and erect spikes. Bracts involved without appendix, fimbriated edges. It blooms between July and August, fruiting in September. Fruit in the form of brown spherical bristle that contains a multitude of tiny seeds that disperse in the wind. This species of big head inhabits between 1,700 and 2,200 meters above sea level, being endemic to the summits of Tenerife, in Las Cañadas del Teide, Cumbres de Vilaflor and Güímar, inhabiting areas of demolition, slags, cracks of cliffs and in compacted pumitic soils, being locally abundant in some of the places mentioned above and coming into contact with the pine forest in certain areas.
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Location: Tenerife island
Photo credit: © Jose Luis Mendez Fernandez / Alamy / Afripics
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