Cres

The vegetation of the Euro-Mediterranean zone is made up of evergreen coniferous or holly oak (Quercus ilex) forests, which have by now been partially destroyed and exchanged by various other types of vegetation such as maquis, geriggue and rocky land pasturage. This has expanded the diversity of the vegetation and the richness of the flora of this area. In a physiognomic and exological sense, the borderline between these two zones, the evergreen and deciduous, is one of the most overwhelming vegetative phenomena in Europe, comparable somewhat to that of the vegetative borderline between the deciduous and coniferous in higher mountains.