The South of Corsica is very rich from his flora. For the specialists, for the amateur, or the simple hiker, trees, shrubs, and flowers open out and are offered to your admiration. Thus according to the area or altitude, several varieties develop and cover the ground in order to form forest and maquis, plain and meadow.
The cane-apple bush, and its beautiful orange red fruits is especially present in the maquis. One makes liquor of it. Who did not taste prickly pear, passes beside a succulent fruit. The prickly peartree is a cactus which can reach up to 5 meters in height. The olive-tree and the fig tree are very cultivated fruit trees, but one can also see some in a wild state, or the abandonment in the old fields remained without succession.
The myrtle, a shrub which can measure up to 5 meters is often used to make liquors or to scent certain pies. The king of the maquis remains the mastic tree, it can have as a neighbor the cistus which is a shrub whose sheets are odorous.
With their foot, the serapias is orchises which flowers in spring. On the edge of the roads or ways, you will discover surely tails of hare thus named because of their form, or the euphorbiums (large stem drawn up in the shape of bouquet) which one often sees on the littoral.
The pine often populates the forests. Some can have more than 1000 years. The chestnut as well as the oak are trees often gathered in forest. The oak cork is often cultivated for its bark. The spread out cyclamen and garlic with three angles are also plants with flowers which belong to the flora of Corsica of the South.
