Introduction
The vegetative landscape that you see is the consequence of factors such as the Mediterranean climate of mild winters and long and dry summers; the stony soil; the strong winds of the Tramuntana, dry and cold; the proximity of the sea and sea breezes; and above all the action of man transforming the original vegetative landscape (cutting down forests of cork and holm oaks) to gain pasture and arable fields; finally, the grazing and wild fires of the recent decades have halted the plant succession at the stage that we see it today: low heathland in the form of scrub and calcifugous garrigues, meadowlands and grasslands. They are shrubs with small and evergreen leaves, some thorny, often aromatic and with beautiful blooms (a strategy to be able to adapt to these harsh conditions). Just beyond, you have sage-leaved rock rose (white spring flower), gorse (thorns and yellow blooms in winter); we will also find grey-leaved cistus, cantueso or spanish lavender, rosemary and thorny broom.
Where the conditions are more favourable, in shady and humid places, note how the tall evergreen shrubs dominate, transitioning from the lost holm oaks: the heathers.
Very soon we will find some cork oaks, near Can Caussa, testimony of the old forest.