Fenología de la floración y fructificación en plantas de un espinal del Bierzo (León, noroeste de España)
ISSN: 0211-1322
Year of publication: 1990
Volume: 48
Issue: 1
Pages: 53-61
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid
Abstract
We studied the flowering and fruiting patterns of thirteen fleshy fruit producing plant species in a spiny shrub community in the Bierzo district (León, Spain). The patterns show a greater degree of synchrony in fruit production, which reaches its peak in November, than in flowering, which peaks in June with a lesser maximum in October. While the flowering periods of productive and non-productive species are similar, the fruiting period of productive species is delayed considerably, its maximum coinciding with the greatest presence of potential dispersal agents. The most important phenological differences in flowering and fruiting among the species studied are found in premiocene perennial and tertiary mediterranean components of the flora, as well as those of fundamentally holarctic distribution.