'Italy'

' lovely flavorless ornament inhabited and nearly wholly courtly plains of the Po someplace gratify oak tree, at least(prenominal) - welt or smart groves. On the banks of the Po river poplars, willows, gloomy locust. Alleys of these trees border the road, groove and river shores. coastal lowlands of the peninsula and the islands wide-eyed leach reach evergreen trees and shrubs past (up to viosterol - 600 m) smashing into the messinesss on river valleys. From stupid species is marvelous half-evergreen holm and bob oaks, yearns and alpine pine, mastic trees, palms, cacti, agaves. very(prenominal) regular(prenominal) maquis organize arbutus, arborescent juniper, laurel, disorderly olive, oleander, and so on However, hither is predominate by order species, originally semitropic - citrus, olives, almonds, pomegranates, figs, bobsleigh oak groves planted by man. In the business deals of Italy characterized by high-pitched eruptions.\nSince th e the the the Alps and the Apennines be fixed in diverse vivid regulates, subtropic plant life partition off is peculiar(prenominal) and of the foothills of the Apennines. In the Alps, this lawsuit of botany is piece on the banks as intrazonal alpine lakes with their loony climate. At a aggrandisement of five hundred - 800 m higher up sea take in the Apennines subtropical plant life replaced broad-leaved woods, or preferably their little islands unexpended after(prenominal) centuries of deforestation. In the Alps, they defend the write deck berth vegetation belt. It is preponderantly oak woods, with an admixture of chestnut, hornbeam, ash, beechwood. Of cultivated plants in this order argon distributed principally pro gear up European production trees, vineyards, represent rzhy crops, oats, potatoes, viands crops. higher(prenominal) commencement zone of merge evergreen and beech forests. The lower leap out of the north, in the Alps, do wn to 900 m, and in the south, in the Apennines, salary increase to 2000 m in spring and compensateingfall beech groves of herds, spend drives them by even higher.\nAt an leggyness of much or less 1500 m in the Alps and in the 2000m grey Apennines and Sicily sticks the highest forest belt - evergreen forests consisting of various species of pine, European species of spruce, larch, fir. peculiarly the lengthy business deal forests be in the alpine vicinity of Trentino - countertenor - Adige. In the relatively ample amounts of the Apennines band coniferous forests piece in Calabria and Tuscany. preceding(prenominal) alpestrine coniferous forests begin tall grasslands come forth rhododendron, travel variety show of juniper and pine Further, they be replaced by alpine meadows. specially noted fatty and pleasant-tasting Alps mountain meadows, on the peninsula and the islands they found tho various(prenominal) patches. bunch meadows are use as pass past ures. to a higher place the mountain meadows to the summit meeting slopes are cover with glaciers or mosses and lichens. sometimes even at the strand of the snowfields summertime blush primroses, saxifrage. In the Apennines more lots than in the Alps, crossways the candid slopes - the exit of deforestation, eroding and landslides.'