Mediterranean Sea

• Barcelona, Spain

  Spain is a country in Southwestern Europe with the territory situated on the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered to the north by Andorra and France, and to the west by Portugal. Spain is a mountainous country in which 1/3 of the mainland is dominated by mountain chains. Most of the country is Mediterranean, characterized by warm/hot and dry summers, while northern Spain is home to deciduous forests and grasslands. Spain's traditional agricultural products include grains in the northern plateaus due to drastic temperature swings, as well as grapes, oranges and olives in Andalusia in southern Spain blessed with fertile land.

• San Francisco, USA

  As the 14th largest city in the USA, San Francisco is home to a variety of plant species owing to its diverse range of habitats from alpine heaths to deserts. It has a remarkably mild year-round climate as strongly influenced by warm currents. California redwoods (sequoia trees) can be easily found in San Francisco, which are the tallest living trees reaching up to 111m. One of the famous trees is named General Sherman it is the largest known living tree on Earth by volume. The desert region provides shelter to numerous California poppies, the state flower of California.

• Rome, Italy

  Italy is a country consisting of a bot-shaped peninsula with a coastline of approx. 1,100km, which juts out of the European continent to the southeast - into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy generally fits the Mediterranean climate profile, mild and warm throughout the year, as it is in a region of 36 degrees to 47 degrees north latitude. Over 35% of the Italian territory is mountainous with an altitude of 700m. Olive trees and cypresses grow in the Alpine basin, cork oaks and Aleppo pines in the Mediterranean basin, and chestnuts, oaks and white poplars in the southern highlands.

• Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia and has an arid continental climate, thus most of its territory is very dry and it almost never rains. The representative plant of Uzbekistan is cotton - cotton production in Uzbekistan accounts for at least 60% of world production. It is a country that also has a high level of biodiversity of flora including desert and highland plants.

• Athens, Greece

  Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece shares land borders with Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey. As it consists of a mountainous mainland, Greece features a variety of climates. Plants mainly growing in the low-lying area include poplars, oaks, and cypresses, but the representative crops in Greece are grapes and olives due to its hot and dry summers. The famous Greek mythology tells us legends of plants we can see common in Greece such as hyacinth, cypress and anemone.

• Perth, Australia

  Australia is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent and the sixth largest country in the world. With very unique biota including 700 species of eucalyptus trees and 1,000 species of acacias (commonly known as wattles), Australian forests are mostly, at least 80%, made up of eucalyptus trees with the remaining 20% occupied by wattles, paperbarks, cypresses, mangroves and rainforests. In Perth, located at the western tip of the continent, thousands of wild flowers bloom from June to September.

• Istanbul, Turkey

  Turkey is a transcontinental country between Southwest Asia and the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe, with considerable species diversity from the Mediterranean vegetation to dry grassland vegetation in inland areas. It is a Country of Flowers where flowers accompany the daily lives of Turks. Various flora originated from the East and West, such as poppies, roses, lavenders and tulips, which grow together in the mainland of Turkey.

• Cape Town, Republic of South Africa

  Republic of South Africa (RSA) is the sourthernmost country in Africa bordered by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. RSA is particularly rich in plant diversity - with about 10% of all the known species of flowering plants, it has a diverse range of habitats including UNESCO-listed Table Mountain National Park, Fynbos, forests, grasslands, savannas, desert areas, coastal forests and magnificent mountains.