SAN SEBASTIAN DE LA GOMERA, 7 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The La Gomera Lobby has delivered Canary Island palm seeds to the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, in order to preserve the species in the palm germplasm bank that the academic institution has located at the Higher Polytechnic School of Orihuela (EPSO).
In a statement, the Island Corporation has explained that these samples of Canary Island palm (Phoenix canariensis) are a pure and non-hybridized species, and correspond to 22 palm trees from 11 palm groves spread throughout the island territory.
Thus, they come from Las Viñas, Las Hayas I and II, and Taguluche, in Valle Gran Rey; the Andenes de Alojera, the Lomo del Carretón, Erque, Erquito, Simanca-Tamargada, and the La Encantadora Dam-Ingenuity, in Vallehermoso; the Valley of Jerduñe, Pastrana, and Benchijigua, in San Sebastián; and El Estanquillo in Hermigua.
The Territory Management and Planning technician of the Cabildo de La Gomera, Juan Ramón Herrera Castro, and the professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Pedro Sosa Hernríquez, have been in charge of delivering these seeds to the secretary of the Palmeral d’Elx Chair, Concepción Obón de Castro, in an act in which authorities and teachers from the academic institution were also present.
The samples transferred to the Miguel Hernández University will form part of the germplasm bank of the Phoenix species.
Currently, this bank has more than 400 seed samples, stored in a refrigerator at 5 degrees Celsius, and more than 300 plants that grow on EPSO land, as well as another 300 palm trees, most of them date palms and Canary palms. , although there are specimens of other species.
This collection of palm trees of the genus Phoenix planted in the ground is the one with the greatest diversity worldwide.
