In the previous year, our family closed the year with a one-week holiday at Tenerife.
Never having visited the Canary Islands before, we found a strange world with unfamiliar
plants life and many new lichens. At the end of that week, I already new there was
unfinished business, that I wanted to return. During this second visit to Tenerife, I was indeed
able to complete some observations. But in addition I focussed more on the rich
plant life, with roughly one in four species being endemic to the Canary Islands, and
many species being endemic to Tenerife alone, or even to small parts of Tenerife.
We also chose a different base location, now in Tegueste, to be better
able to visit the cloud forests of the Anaga peninsula.
For the identification of many lichens I am especially indebted to Andre Aptroot.
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