Very Rare Orchids and Endemic Flora

The botanical endemisms are more than 220 (10% of the whole Sardinian flora) and some are true rarities: only for the wild orchids, of which the island is rich, 50 of the 120 present kinds on the Italian territory are found in Sardinia. The coastal zones and the islands have very particular and exclusive flora and fauna. The rocky walls bloom with ‘garofanino’, several species of the genre ‘limonium’, the ‘centaurea horrida’ and the ‘filiformis’. The dwarf palm grows together with the other plants of the Mediterranean bush and in the sandy shores we find the sea lily, the ‘violaciocca’ of the sea,, the ‘armeria’ and the Phoenician juniper.