Anyone who knows the species (after you detected the plant)?
jackpot quiz 3
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jackpot quiz 3
sorry for this pic, but this is also wildlife...
Anyone who knows the species (after you detected the plant)?
Anyone who knows the species (after you detected the plant)?
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Aargh!!
10 points for Wolf for spp identificaltion. I would add
Homo gahan melitensis subsp. melitensis forma egoista
Sorry Jack, it is too difficult to look at the disgraceul picture and concentrate on the plant. It's a painful image for any biophile.
Homo gahan melitensis subsp. melitensis forma egoista
Sorry Jack, it is too difficult to look at the disgraceul picture and concentrate on the plant. It's a painful image for any biophile.
) it should be written as Tribulus terrestris 
Hi all- yes, well done with Tribulus terrestris. A barkeeper of a hotel during may stays told me that this plant is a Maltese endemic one, growing only at sites of Valettas fortifications, and that the knights hold Tribulus sacred, under the name of the "Maltese-Cross-Plant", due to the fruit (MWP mentioned the strange capsule). In fact, this knowledge seems to be somewhat distributed in Malta, some other people told me this nice story, too. In fact, T.t. is an alien, but a lovely one and not dangerously invasive, distributed tody in dry hot areas of the tropics and subtropics, and in Malta rather rare, present possibly since more than 500 years. So this is one of the aliens enriching the maltese flora, no doubt (for me), and absolutely no reason to cover the Tribulus mats with trash mats! Wolf: in summer you should go to Fort St. Elmo. Between the road and the Fort is a larger place (square), easy to find them, but they are in flower about noon only (more or less).
Interestingly, there is another population of the same species but extremely different (very hairy, flowers are somewhat gristly, and the mats are long creeping in one direction and not as almost circularly, like the St. Elmo one). As far as I know both are not divided into subspecies. Take the main road to Valletta (going up) , you pass Jubilee Grove, there is a road to the left, in front of the high wall of the fortification is a place like a not official parking area, there, you will find the plant (sometimes below cars).
Interestingly, there is another population of the same species but extremely different (very hairy, flowers are somewhat gristly, and the mats are long creeping in one direction and not as almost circularly, like the St. Elmo one). As far as I know both are not divided into subspecies. Take the main road to Valletta (going up) , you pass Jubilee Grove, there is a road to the left, in front of the high wall of the fortification is a place like a not official parking area, there, you will find the plant (sometimes below cars).