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Anacamptis laxiflora; May 2004
Aristolochia clematitis
Cerastium glutinosum subsp. moesiacum; May 2004
Corydalis thasia; March 2004
Crocus pulchellus, September 2005
Digitalis lanata; May 2004
Galanthus elwesii; February 2008
Haplophyllum balcanicum; May 2004
(This plant, one of the few specimens on Thasos of this species, had been dug up by May 2008)
The summer snowflake, Leucojum aestivum, a plant dependent on permanently wet sites, was believed to be extinct on Thasos, one of its few Greek sites. However it was rediscovered in 1998, in a marshy area at Golden beach, opposite the Marina Apartments. Here it flourished with yellow iris and adderstongue spearwort, until spring 2004, when a large building was built on both the marsh and the snowflake's last viable population.
Before... (photo taken 18 May 2000)
After... (photo taken 17 May 2004) (By May 2008 these trees had gone too...)
