Walking on Tenerife and especially on Teide Natural Park, you’re very likely to see many plants of Tajinaste Rojo, a flower plant that looks like something coming from another planet, due to how tall it is and the way its leaves lay on the ground.
This plant can reach up to 2 meters in height, and remarkable diameters of 50 centimetres; during the flowering season it’s almost completely covered by little red flowers except on its base where there’s also room for a few leaves laying down.
The Tajinaste plants are endemic to Canary Islands, but the red one (Rojo) is typical of Tenerife. Other kind of Tajinaste are around other islands, like Azul and Blanco that have blue and white flowers instead, as the names imply.
Where can you find them and when?
You can’t see them all year long, they will show flowers only on late spring, so it’s easy to spot them on late May or June.
The easier way to find them is to go walking on some trails on the Teide National Park: you don’t need to walk too much, just a few steps away from the main parking areas (obviously just step on the allowed areas!) where there are some plants around, so not on the black volcanic lava fields.
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