Tamargueira (Tamarix africana)
Shrub or small tree with minimal and deciduous leaves, turning yellow in autumn and can remain for a long time in the plant. The branches are dark and flexible. The flowers are white or pink, very small that form in cylindrical curls at the ends of the branches. They can be very dense, almost impossible to see the leaves.
It develops in the margins or even in the bed of the streams. Resistant to hot climates but requires moisture in the roots. It tolerates the submersion of roots for short periods. The association of Tamarix africana, Flueggea tinctoria and Nerium oleander composes the habitat (92DO).
Tamujo (Flueggea tinctoria)
A shrub plant typical of Mediterranean riverine habitats, endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Small leaves, simple and deciduous. The branches end up in thorns at the ends.
Common on the banks and beds of torrential watercourses.
Loendro (Nerium oleander)
Bush of persistent large and simple leaves, toxic to humans and domestic herbivores. The flowers are pink with varying color tones. Branches are flexible.
Very typical of the Mediterranean habitat, in a natural state occurs only along the streams and water lines of the south of the Iberian Peninsula where it can form extensive meandering spots along the valleys (loendroal).
Freixo (Fraxinus angustifolia)
Large tree, with composite leaves, with 5 to 9 leaflets and deciduous. Flowers in bunch of white color.
Distributed throughout most of the country, it forms riparian forests along the banks of rivers and streams in the south but may also exist in associations of deciduous forests mainly in mountain or associated with cork oak forests.
Salgueiro (Salix salvifolia)
Medium sized tree with flexible branches and deciduous leaves. Leaves simple and alternated, oval and long. Flowers in amentilho.
Distributed throughout the country but with community importance, they form large galleries that constitute the habitat (92AO).
Junco (Juncus acutus)
Perennial herbaceous plant, with very thin, long stems envolved by almost imperceptible leaves. It reaches a little more than one meter in height. It develops in tufts along the banks in the flood bed.
