{"id":37901,"date":"2026-02-05T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ortidimare.it\/percorsofloristico\/flora\/cisto-marino\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:27:14","slug":"cisto-marino","status":"publish","type":"pf_pianta","link":"https:\/\/www.ortidimare.it\/en\/floral-trail\/flora\/cisto-marino\/","title":{"rendered":"Montpellier Rock Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montpellier Cistus is one of three rockroses found on Elba. <strong>It grows on garrigue and in dry, sunny places<\/strong>; it colonizes land after fires (the seeds are resistant to high temperatures) and vegetation clearance. It is a very branchy, distinctly aromatic evergreen shrub, between 30 and 100 cm tall. <strong>The leaves are rich in essential oils and therefore sticky to the touch<\/strong>; the inflorescences are in groups of 2-8 flowers each on peduncles placed on a common main axis (racemes). <strong>Each individual flower lasts about a day, but the plant blooms continuously<\/strong>, <strong>and in spring, extensive stretches of mountain slopes are painted white with these flowers.<\/strong> You may notice a kind of foam on the plant, which <strong>is the refuge of the spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)<\/strong>. On Elba, this plant is known as \u201cmucchio\u201d. In the past, every village had dozens of wood-fired domestic ovens where bread and fragrant flatbreads were regularly baked; \u201cmucchio\u201d was used as fuel to heat and flavour the ovens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montpellier Cistus is one of three rockroses found on Elba. 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