AEGINA
Plants and Animals
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 AeginaPhoto: 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 AeginaPhoto: 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, AeginaPhoto: 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 AeginaPhoto: Vinayaraj CC 4.0 International no changes made
Animals
Aegina Rock partridgePhoto: 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 AeginaPhoto: Public domain
Sources
Wikipedia
CIA - World Factbook
BBC - Country Profiles
Last updated May 2023Copyright: Team The World of Info