Spruce broad-scaled

68,00 â‚¬

Series: Pliocene.

Origin: Alsace, France.

Medidas: 4,4 cm x 2,1 cm x 1,5 cm

1 in stock

SKU: PA299 Categories: ,
Female inflorescence or cone Spruce, From an old collection.
During the Pliocene (between 5.3 and 2.6 million years ago), the Alsace region It experienced a warm-temperate climate with mixed forests and intense fluvial sedimentation in the Rhine Basin. The Pliocene marked the transition from a warm Tertiary to the colder conditions of the Pleistocene (glaciations).
Characteristics of the flora of the Alsatian Pliocene:
  • Hazelnuts (Corylus) and you have (Fagus): deciduous trees adapted to the ambient humidity and temperate soils in the valleys and lowlands.
  • Walnut (Juglans): integrated into mixed forests of the plains or mid-slopes under summer humidity conditions.
  • Caria (Carya): genus of trees of the Juglandaceae family, part of the mixed mesophilic forests under summer humidity conditions.
  • Spruce trees (Spruce) and pines (Pinus): dominant conifers in higher altitude areas or poor soils.
  • Storaxes (Styrax): relicts of a more temperate/subtropical character that still resisted in favorable refuges before their final retreat from Central Europe.
  • Sweetgum (Liquidambar)It acted as a thermophilic component of mid-latitudes, prior to the great Pleistocene glaciations that eliminated the genus Liquidambar from the central European region.
The box is included in the price.