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English[en]
Laurel-leaved forests , called laurisilva , once covered most of the Azores, Madeira, and parts of the Canaries between 400-1200 m altitude (the Savage Islands, the eastern Canaries and Cape Verde being too dry). These forests resemble the ancient forests that covered the Mediterranean basin and northwestern Africa before cooling and drying of the ice age s. Trees of the genera Apollonias ( Lauraceae ), Clethra ( Clethra ceae), Dracaena ( Ruscaceae ), Ocotea ( Lauraceae ), Persea ( Lauraceae ), and Picconia ( Oleaceae ), which are found in the Macaronesian laurel forests, are also known from fossils to have lived around the Mediterranean before the ice ages.
Spanish[es]
Azores y Madeira presentan mayor índice de lluvias que Canarias y Cabo Verde .