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Alpin Zone Plant Societies
Alpin zone plant societies are beginning from upper limits of forest ecological systems and reach to the heights where snow cover is continuing (approximately between 2. 000 and 3. 500 meters). If you remember that a rough and mountainous country, Turkey has 129 peeks exceeding three thousand meters, it can be mentioned [...]
Iran -Turan Plant Area (Steppes)
Steppes generally composed of xerophytic plant species and seen in wide areas reaching from Thrace to Iran and Iraq are the most common plant cover of Anatolia. Steppe plant cover, formed with the continuance of presence of one or more years long – lived plants in places where raining does not [...]
Endemic (Authentic) Plant Species of Our Country
There are also agricultural culture plants besides flowered plants among plant species, whose homeland is Turkey. Esthetically benefiting unique plant species related samples are shown at the following table:
Name of the City
Name of Plant in Latin
Turkish Name of Plant
Adana
Crocus Adanensis,
Ophrys Cilicica,
Viola Cilicica
Adana çiğdemi,
Adana Orkidesi,
AdanaMenekşesi
Ağrı
Campanula Aghrica,
Rosa dumalis,
Rosa pisiformis
Ağrı çan çiçeği,
Gül,
Gül
Ankara
Crocus [...]
Endemic Plants Used In Meals
30 % of the agricultural plants, having a key role in nourishment of human beings are based from Anatolia (For example: cherry, almond, apricot, wheat, chickpea, lentil, fig, tulip, snowdrop and crocus). Some endemic plants of our country includes culture plants, and some wild herbs which are not culture plants can [...]
Botanic
Various geographic characteristics, climate variety, caused by geographical differences, being a natural bridge between three continents, caused Anatolia Peninsula to have a rarely encountered vegetation in the world. While vegetation number, present in all along Europe is a total of 12.000, this figure is 9.000 in our country.
Our country is superior than Europe according to [...]
Mediterranean Plant Societies
Mediterranean plant societies had been spread till to the Aegean, Marmara, Central Black Sea and west parts of Southeastern Anatolia with exceeding Mediterranean geographical region territories. Scrub, which is accepted as the most important plant society of the Mediterranean plant societies, is also defined as “dwarfish forest” in connection with botanic. Scrub plant [...]
European – Siberia Plant Societies (Black Sea Plant Socıetıes)
Black Sea Plant Society, which is under impact of a warm climate and a regular raining regime, is composed of all of the Black Sea Region as well as Marmara and Thrace, and also from place to place it is infiltrating into Central and Eastern Anatolia [...]