AEGINA
Plants and Animals

Popular destinations GREECE

Aegina	Alonissos	Andros
Chios	Corfu	Crete
Hydra	Kalymnos	Karpathos
Kefalonia	Kos	Lefkas
Lesbos	Mykonos	Naxos
Paros	Patmos	Peloponnese
Poros	Rhodes	Samos
Santorini	Skiathos	Skopelos
Spetses	Thasos	Zakynthos

Plants and Animals

Plants

Olive tree Aegina_{Photo: Views of Reality CC 4.0 International no changes made}

The great biodiversity on the small Aegina is impressive. Hundreds of different types of trees, shrubs, flowers, wild plants, grasses and herbs grow and flourish on the island. Below is a random overview:

aker buttercup	Canadian fleabane	common heron beak
field marigold	Christanjelier	plain salt-reported
field lion beak	cistus rose	common piglet herb
bindweed	dark troshyacinth	smooth piglet weed
anemone	thorn apple	smooth honorific
asparagus-pea	thorny burnet	glossy cranesbill
bearded iris	thorn seed	wave-blade torch
bastard poppy	heath	Greek cyclamen *
basterdamarant	double	gray mustard
bastard vetch	dune bird wall	large field screen
hairy canary clover	true cross thistle	glasswort
broom brake	single-flowered clover	mallow mallow
beech tree	annual bingelwort	stinging nettle
beet	elegant ide	large wax flower
blaasjeswingerd	European heliotrope	great plantain
bladder silene	fine-leaved fumitory	hers foot
blue lupine	beautiful centaury	hare-foot plantain
blue guichelheil	beautiful sorrel	hedge tendril
blue leaf clover	fringe wine glass	heliotrope
blue bedstraw	French silene	hemp eater
blood red broomrape	French bird's milk	shepherd's purse
curvy sea lavender	crimped calf foot	herik
variegated vetch	crowned goose flower	stag hay
tree malva	yellow goose flower	deer horn plantain
tree spinach	yellow horn poppy	chicken bite
blackberry	yellow sternbergia	centennial alo
fireweed	prickly acanthus	dog helmet herb
wide rocket	flamed fleabane	dogweed
brem	spotted rockrose	horn clover
broom horn clover	common fumitory	hottentot fig
broomrape	milk thistle
bridal flower	regular missile

Greek cyclamen occurs on Aegina_{Photo: Tejvan Pettinger CC 2.0 Generic no changes made}

incarnate clover	crested lavender	giant chafer
Italian Snakewort	litmus plant	robertskruid
Italian Honeysuckle	snapdragon	red goose foot
camphoralant	landscape clover	red horn poppy
chamomile	erodium malacoides	red beetroot
honeysuckle	Milk thistle	red ox tongue
caper	Mediterranean Clover	around cyper grass
kattendoorn	Mediterranean Milk Thistle	round cranesbill
cat tail amaranth	Mediterranean selaginella	red stonecrop
poppy	Mediterranean bindweed	pink look
trefoil	madder	rosemary
cleavers	milkweed foot	rough clover clover
small nettle	monk's pepper	clover clover
little clover clover	monk's beard	rough clover
small sole orchid	moss flower	raw pearl seed
common ragwort	wall	rough forget my staple
small-flowered mallow	wall goose foot	safflower
small-flowered snakewort	wall navel herb	saffron crocus
small-flowered rock rose	needle chervil	sage
small flowered sage	night beauty	salt marsh
little honey clover	primal leek	chamomile chamomile
little poppy	oleander	scale fern
little burnet	oriental missile	Sicilian bindweed
little white clover	ox-tongue	sweet pea
sticky alant	purple morning star	sleeping globe
clew horn flower	parrotwort	snake look
tangled sorrel	umbrella plant *	slender centaury
nodd flower	peacock anemone	narrow-leaved ice herb
nodding wood sorrel	pitch clover	narrow-leaved clover
knotty thorn seed	purslane	narrow road width
compassia	rocket salad	Spanish gold thistle
wreath wall	tendrils bunch	Spanish daisy
crested hyacinth	heron beak	Spanish mustard

Umbrella plant, Aegina_{Photo: Daniel Beyer CC3.0 Unported no changes made}

spatula felt herb	felt clover	warty bedstraw
skewer	stock	soft cranesbill
spring cucumber	flax lion beak	thale cress
spiny chicory	vetch	sea juin
spiky star eye	bird's foot clover	seaalant
stinging lye herb	strange figwort	sea rocket
sterhyacinth	Plantain Snakewort	sea us
smelly strip seed	wild asparagus	sea fennel
shrub mallow	wild chicory	marine diadem
shrubby samphire	wild cumin	fake salty spurry
Bindweed	wild nigelle	silver leaf nightshade
slender field wall	wild carrot	summer bitterling
thyme	wild reseda	summer violet
thyme-leafed savory	changeable flower	rockrose
thyme-leaved rockrose	white henbane	black nightshade *
troshyacinth	white asphodel	black gooseberry
tuberous lion tooth	white amaranth
pig grass	white clover
fennel	white mustard
venus navel	white reseda
prickly pear cactus	spurge

Black nightshade Aegina_{Photo: Vinayaraj CC 4.0 International no changes made}

Animals

Aegina Rock partridge_{Photo: Richard Bartz CC 2.5 Generic no changes made}

Aegina is an excellent destination for bird watchers, who can encounter many species throughout the year. Some areas known as birding areas par excellence are Mt. Ellanio (Hellanios), the mountain hut of Paxia Rachi and the area outside the village of Kontos. Then catch a glimpse of (common) rock partridges, Sardinian warblers, subalpine warblers, Northern wheatears or wheatears and storks, among others.

Aegina is home to a unique delicacy that most islanders are not even aware of. It is a fish known as the Katsoula and can only be found in very special circumstances, which Aegina seems to have. The fish is therefore rarely found outside the waters around the island.

Another well-known fish of Aegina is the flathead grey mullet that lives in shallow sunny waters around Aegina. This fish is converted into Lykourinos, a delicious salted treat.

Flathead grey mullet Aegina_{Photo: Public domain}

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Last updated May 2023
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