Aliaga - Ulex parviflorus
Puig Campana, Finestrat, Alicante, Spain (Nov 2013).
Is a spiny shrub from the Fabaceae family that can reach until 2 m in height. Its flowers appear in the winter and are bright yellow. Very common in the mountains of Alicante.
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Ulex parviflorus Pourr. (Fabaceae) is a thorny perennial shrub that, in mature stages, retains a high proportion of dead biomass in the plant, giving it a high flammability (Baeza et al., 2011). Post-fire regeneration is exclusively by seedling recruitment (i.e. it lacks the ability to resprout; Paula et al., 2009).