Natural History Photographs


Anaga: Barranco de Afur
28 December 2016


From the village Afur, a well-maintained trail leads down all tp the beach, more or less following one of the few permanent streams on the island. The Crossbill Guide describing this walk promises many dragonflies, but the time of the year is not very conducive to this - although we saw a few, among others the Emperor dragonfly, Anax imperator.







Aeonium lindleyi


Rocella fuciformes


Placidium boccanum Placopyrenium bucekii


Aeonium tabulaeforme


Parmotrema tinctorum


cf. Pyrenodesmia
variabilis

Buellia cf. dispersa

Toninia spec.


Lavendula canariensis Chrysomelidae


Collema ryssoleum Ochrolechia parella


Artemisia thuscula


Coccocarpia erythroxyli


Ancistrocerus haematodes


Aeonium cf. volkeri Cyperus rubicundus


Danaus chrysippus Pararge xiphioides


Igneous rock


Diploicia canescens


Euphorbia canariensis


Jasminum odoratissimum


Rust


Juniperus turbinata


Selaginella denticulata Aeonium arboreum


Habenaria tridactylites


Rubia fruticosa


Sonchus spec. Rocella fuciformes