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July Flower of the Month: Sandarac Gum Tree (MT: Siġra tal-Għargħar)
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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)
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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
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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...

December Flower of the Month: Mediterranean Heath (MT: Erika) Erica multiflora
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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...

November Flower of the Month:  Carob Tree (MT: Siġra tal-Ħarrub) Ceratonia siliqua
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November Flower of the Month: Carob Tree (MT: Siġra tal-Ħarrub) Ceratonia siliqua

One of the most spectacular archaeophytes of Malta, introduced in ancient times, is the Carob Tree, with its dome-like canopy providing a shady refuge for both wildlife and humans all year round. After these autumn rains it is not only the visual landscape which changes around us, but even the olfactory one as flowering male...

October Flower of the Month: Autumn Squill; (MT: Għansar tal-Ħarifa) Prospero autumnale
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October Flower of the Month: Autumn Squill; (MT: Għansar tal-Ħarifa) Prospero autumnale

Enter Autumn! (or so we hope…for the sake of all farmers, all wildlife and all gardens in need of some rest from the heat…) The Autumn Squill is the miniature equivalent of the Sea Squill we introduced last August as our plant of the month. This tiny indigenous flower of less than a cm is...

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