Project Pancake Flora – Plants and Nature Conveying Augmented Knowledge for Everyone As part of Project PANCAKE (Plants and Nature Conveying Augmented Knowledge for Everyone), we are looking at a number of plant species chosen by associations for the deaf in Malta, Italy, Spain and the UK to create new signs. This month,...
July Flower of the Month: Sandarac Gum Tree (MT: Siġra tal-Għargħar)
Project Pancake Flora – Plants and Nature Conveying Augmented Knowledge for Everyone The list of Flora being interpreted into Maltese Sign Language as part of the PANCAKE Project includes a tree with quite a rare distribution worldwide and which happens to be the National Tree of Malta. Also known as the Arar Tree...
June Flower of the Month: Maltese Rock Centaury (MT: Widnet il-Baħar)
Project Pancake Flora – Plants and Nature Conveying Augmented Knowledge for Everyone Continuing with our list of Flora being interpreted into sign language comes the floral queen of the Maltese Islands – the National Plant of Malta. A well deserved entry into the dictionary of Maltese Sign Language! Maltese Rock Centaury (MT: Widnet...
May Flower of the Month: Stinking Iris (MT: Fjurdulis tal-Bosk) Iris foetidissima
Project Pancake Flora – Plants and Nature Conveying Augmented Knowledge for Everyone In our December 2021 newsletter, we introduced the project PANCAKE which is being led by FoEMalta and includes international partners from 3 other countries with the aim to bring the silent world of plants accessible to the deaf community by creating new...
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December Flower of the Month: Mediterranean Heath (MT: Erika) Erica multiflora
Around this time of year this winter flowering evergreen shrub paints one of the prettiest natural landscapes by colouring pink the limestone garigue and valley sides with its clusters of bell-shaped flowers (occasionally found in darker shades or, rarely, almost white). This native plant, the only one represented in Malta from the species-rich Ericaceae family...