Conservation of Posidonia Oceanica meadows in Andalusia coast 18
February 2012 | Project description Proyecto LIFE + NATURALEZA
(LIFE 09/NAT/ES/00534) Posidonia oceanica belongs to
Posidoniaceae family, with just one gender (Posidonia). It is a
superior plant that develops a system of roots, and this is the
reason why it needs a substrate of sand or mud to take root. It
has flowers and, hence, fruits and seeds. It blooms in autumn
and its fruits usually appear on our beaches in May or June,
usually known as “sea olives”. After sprouting, it produces a
subterranean stem, called rhizome, from which roots emerge; and
it also produces some short top stems from which emerge the long
and narrow leaves. These leaves have little more than a
centimeter wide and a length that can vary from some centimeters
to a meter and a half. The rhizomes can constitute very long
chains that can exceed many hundreds of meters long, as it
occurs, for example, in some well-preserved areas of the
Balearic Islands. It is through these r