2004Flora - Dinarian Kandilka - First Day Cover

This floral type is enriched with hortoestetic attributes, just like the remaining types of this interesting kind. But, the thing that makes it really special is the fact that it symbolizes as a genuine jewel of our vascular flora; it is the endemic kind of some mountainous masives of the Dinarida. Therefore it is found on the mountains of the «endemic centre of Herzegovina»: Prenj, Čvrsnica, Plasa, Čabulja, Vran, Velež, and on the near-by mountains of Visočica and Crvnja striking above the fields of Nevesinje, from where you could tell that the centre of its expandation is exactly on these mountains. It is found on some other croatian masives, where the northwestern boundary of its range is found, while the southeastern boundary is at some of the points of north Albania. Because of its specific exterior morphology, ecology and restricted range this species takes up a special place amongst the various types of this kind Aquilegia L.