Spontaneous Flora of the Urban
Areas of Tirana, three new
species recorded for the first
time in Albania
"Field surveys, based on a
defined methodology, conducted during the spring-summer period of 2023, revealed a total of 262 plant species belonging to 53 families. The taxonomic distribution highlights Poaceae and Compositae as the most species-rich families."
http://journal.pmf.ni.ac.rs/bionys/index.php/bionys/article/view/516/386
@ml I think the plants would consider themselves intentional :)
Exciting to hear more biodiversity 🌱
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@kellyromanych @ml @plantscience
"Compositae"?! I haven't heard that in a couple decades.
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@xris @kellyromanych I think it's helpful to remember that Albania was under a brutal authoritarian regime for decades that isolated Albanians physically, linguistically, and knowledge-wise from the rest of the world.
Even now, Albania has a hard time with underfunded and under-resourced science. It's so poor that the majority of its youth leave the country. That's pretty disruptive to staying "au courant".
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KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)
Flatbush Gardener 🌈