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Tenerife Excursion 2016 Tenerife Excursion 2016 Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants & Bonn Botanic Gardens Bonn, March 2016 i Protocol of the botanical Tenerife Excursion 2016, organized and realized by Dr. Wolfram Lobin (Botanische Gärten Bonn) and Dr. Stefan Abrahamczyk (Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen, Uni Bonn). This work is published under the creative common license (CC BYNCSA). Users are allowed to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author credits. Please cite as: Lobin W., Abrahamczyk S. & Böhnert T. (2016) Tenerife Excursion – 2016. Nees Institute, Bonn. Cover photos: [top] Mount Teide, photograph taken from the Anaga mountains towards the centre of Tenerife (Tim B.); [middle left] creative student amuse- ment while watching stars at the Cañada del Teide (Saskia S.); [middle right] Observing pollinators on Echium simplex at the trip from Punta del Hidalgo to Chinamada (Tim B.); [bottom] Euphorbia aphylla at Punta del Fraile (Tim B.). Group leader Dr. WOLFRAM LOBIN Botanische Gärten Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Meckenheimer Allee 171; 53115 Bonn (Germany) [email protected] Dr. STEFAN ABRAHAMCZYK Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Meckenheimer Allee 170; 53115 Bonn (Germany) [email protected] Editor TIM BÖHNERT Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Meckenheimer Allee 170; 53115 Bonn (Germany) [email protected] E iii 17 8 18 11 12 5 3 9 16 10 13 7 14 1 15 6 4 2 15 7 18 11 12 13 4 3 14 10 16 8 17 1 9 2 6 Nr. Par cipants Nr. Par cipants 1 Daniela Francisca Aros Mualin 10 Saskia Schlesak 2 Johannes Krassmann 11 Simon Momper 3 Julia Walter 12 Stefan Abrahamczyk 4 Karin Becker 13 Stella Eggels 5 Konstan n Neumann 14 Stella Fließwasser 6 Mahdieh Malek Hosseini 15 Tianjun Liu 7 Mahsa Namini 16 Tim Böhnert 8 Philipp Gerke 17 Vera Krieger 9 Rafael Acuña-Cas llo 18 Wolfram Lobin T C v 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DAILY PROTOCOLS 4 09.03.2016 — City Excursion in Puerto de la Cruz 4 10.03.2016 — Punta de Teno, Punta del Fraile and Buen Paso 9 11.03.2016 — Montaña Roja near El Médano 17 12.03.2016 — El Palmar, Masca, Chío and Icod de los Vinos 22 13.03.2016 — Pínar above Aguamansa 30 14.03.2016 — Mal Pais de Güímar & Barranco de Badajoz 35 15.03.2016 — Cañadas del Teide 42 16.03.2016 — Coast Buenavista & Thermophile forest 46 17.03.2016 — Loro Park 52 18.03.2016 — Anaga I: Laurel Forest, El Pijaral – Roque Chinobre 53 19.03.2016 — Anaga II: Mirador Pico del Inglés & Chamorga 60 20.03.2016 — Los Silos to Erjos 66 21.03.2016 — Punta del Hidalgo to Chinamada 74 22.03.2016 — Jardín botánico and flower ecology 81 3 APPENDIX 86 Species list of all plant taxa recorded during the 2016 excursion 86 Species list of birds 94 List of locations with geographical coordinates 95 Useful & cited Literature 96 1 1 Introduction Extensive field trips have always played an important role for research and education at the Nees Institute. Wolfram Lobin (WL) has continued this tradition which was initiated by his collegues Klaus Kramer and Maximilian Boecker who has unfortunately died few years ago. WL succeeded to guide his first excursion in Bonn with Maximilian Boecker. 1989 Canary Is. with M. Boecker 2008 Canary Is. with J. Mutke 1990 Mallorca with M. Boecker 2010 Marocco with J. Mutke 1992 Lake Garda 2013 Cyprus with J. Mutke 1995 Canary Is. 2015 Marocco with S. Abrahamczyk 2004 Canary Is. with J. Mutke 2016 Canary Is. with S. Abrahamczyk 2005 Morocco with J. Mutke In accordance with former field trips the introduction week was postponed. Participants gave presentations about different topics e.g. the history of the Canary Islands, its geological history, spatial and climatic environmental conditions as well as environmental topics. Moreover, they presented plant portraits of important Canarian plants and informed themselves on the Internet about protected areas. Some of the field trip destinations were situated within protected areas so that it was necessary to get permissions in order to enter the sites (435/15; 2015-03810). Coordination with the respective authorities was manageable with reasonable efforts so that we received all necessary documents without any problems. The field trip lasted from March 9th to March 23rd, 2016. It started from Cologne/ Bonn Airport. Like on previous excursions we were accommodated at the Apartment Hotel Florida Plaza where we had apartments with a small kitchen at our disposal. Moreover, a meeting room in the basement was used for our daily debriefing sessions in the evenings. Most of the time, we drove four rented cars which were easy to handle and occupied with four or five students. For two field trips (from Los Silos to Erjos and from Punta de Hidalgo to Chinamada) we rented a bus so that we were able to start and finish in different localities. We managed to visit all the destinations we planned to. We observed that tourism augmented considerably in the intervening eight years, even though in 2008 saturation was observed and we expected that the situation could not get any worse. The journey to Masca along the steep road with all the sharp bends was very nerve-wrecking due to heavy traffic and oversized touring coaches. Therefore, we emphatically advise not to visit Barranco de Masca anymore. 2 I All participants of the excursion were very active and enthusiastic so that it was very pleasant to show them the beauty of Tenerife and draw the attention of the students to interesting plants. WL would like to thank everybody considering that this was his last (official) excursion, specially to Dr. Arnoldo Santos whom he owes his good knowledge of the plants and all the locations of the Canaries. Furthermore, he would like to thank Klaus Lewejohann (Göttingen) with whom he explored the Canary Islands and who shared hie knowledge of plants with him. His thanks also extend to his collegues M. Boecker, J. Mutke and S. Abrahamczyk. Thanks also to the authorities of the Canary Islands (Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Área de Sostenibilidad, Medio Ambiente, Aguas y Seguridad, Servicio de Medio Ambiente y Seguridad, Unidad de Coordinación). Most importantly his thanks also go to generations of students who have always been open-minded and allowed themselves be fascinated by plants and their beauty during all excursions. We also thank our drivers who always drove us safely, T. Böhnert who efficiently compiled the excursion report, as well as Rafael Acuña-Castillo and Klaus Lewejohann for proofreading. I 3 A B Map 1 | Tenerife, vegeta on types and excursion loca ons A) Overview map of the Canary Islands. B) Overview map of the vegeta on types of Tenerife incl. all loca on and hiking tracks visited during the excursion. C) Roadmap of Tenerife incl. all loca on and hiking tracks visited during the excursion. 4 D P 2 Daily Protocols 09.03.2016 — City Excursion in Puerto de la Cruz Protocol by Mahsa Namini & Saskia Schlesak Our journey began after meeting up at the main station in Bonn at 4 am. Due to the modified flight schedule with a departure at 6 am we reached the Tenerife Sur Airport at 9:35 am local time, taking the bus to Puerto de la Cruz in the northern part of Tenerife. With the long bus tour to our final destination, we gained some insight to the different vegetation types in contrast to several agricultural and abandoned fields. Finally, we reached the hotel ”Apartamentos Florida Plaza” at 12:30 pm. We were grouped into 2 to 3 persons per apartment containing a kitchen and a bathroom since no further catering was included. The hotel offered a swimming pool on the rooftop and a meeting room that we used for our evening discussions. The hotel location was very adequate. The parking area for the cars was located next to the coast and therefore very close to the hotel. Furthermore, there were two large supermarkets easily reachable as well as several restaurants and bars. Due to the location of the hotel and our apartments on the first floor the noises of the nightlife were loudly present since the windows of each apartment were very permeable. However, the accommodations were acceptable with the cleaning staff coming 6 days pere week bringing new towels and cleaning up the bedrooms. Unfortunately there was no free WiFi offered by the hotel. After a short acclimatization our city tour began at 2:40 pm until we reached the car rental “Europcar” at around 5 pm. We stayed in the city near the coast where we walked through the small streets and public parks of the picturesque city center. Directly in the beginning of our tour we found Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, which can be easily recognized as a member of the Malvaceae family by its androgynophore. Along our way through the city we passed several introduced ornamental plants native to the South American and African continent, like Aloe vera, Agave americana and Spathodea campanulata. Especially S. campanulata caught our attention with its orange, tulipe-like flowers. Other plants like Bougainvillea sp. and Euphorbia pulcherrima can be recognized by their coloured bracts that should not be confounded with the inconspicuous flower. E. pulcherrima is also known as “poinsettia” and is native to Mexico. Then, we surprisingly spotted a handful of plants native to Tenerife like Dracaena draco, Tamarix canariensis, Euphorbia canariensis and Phoenix canariensis. P. canariensis is the only native member belonging to the Arecaceae in between the cultivated palms like Chamaerops humilis, Roystonea regia and Washingtonia sp.
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