The Ministry of Agriculture and Water offers from today until December 31 educational exhibits on 'Flora endangered North African: the Cartagena jara', at the offices of the Directorate General of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity (calle Professor Eugenio Úbeda 3).
Iberian populations of the pink corolla cistácea, threat, are confined to the mountains of southeast and the peninsula and the Ministry is now finalizing a plan for recovery.
The exhibition consists of eight panels explaining this protected species, which has been the subject of various research, conservation and outreach, and artistic interventions.
They make a review of the history of the plant, its ecology and conservation status.
Jara Murcia population was discovered in the early twentieth century by the local botanical Francisco de Paula Jiménez, who along with Francisco Ibáñez herbarium taxon seen in the Eagle Rock in 1908.
Dansereau, Fernandez Galiano, Esteve Rigual and during the decades of 50 to 70 of the twentieth century did not detect wild populations, so take it for extinct in 1973.
In 1986, Manuel Benito is a copy in the Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia).
In 1993, José Antonio Navarro discovered a new population, consisting of seven men and two young adults in the vicinity of Eagle Rock, which was scorched by the fire in the area in 1998.
In 1999, the reactivation of the seed bank and develop individuals within the current population.
The sample was prepared by the Southeastern Association of Naturalists (ANSE), pursuant to the agreement signed with the Ministry to develop conservation actions threatened wild flora of the region.
He has also worked the Generalitat Valenciana.
Source: CARM