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This zone is in the
lower part of the land and benefits from a deep and rich soil. The forest
canopy composed of big evergreen oaks and wild olive trees is tall and
protective.
To increase the botanical diversity of this zone, it has been divided in
three parts:
- A semi dry one where plants come from the south western part of
Australia with a Mediterranean climate; summer watering is reduced,
- A
subtropical one in which the New-Zealand and east Australian plants have been
placed,
- The last one gathers the tropical Australian plants and those which need
a great humidity during summer.
Once the plants had adapted to the site they have greatly improved and this
zone now looks very much like a small tropical forest where sometimes it is
difficult to penetrate!
This zone has also allowed some plant naturalization of, for example, palm
trees and ferns. An exceptional one is certainly the self sown Platycerium
bifurcatum in Livistona australis fibres and on the evergreen oak trunks.
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