Editing Corfu (section)

===Flora===
[[Homer]] identifies six plants that adorn the garden of [[Alcinous]]: wild olive, pear, [[pomegranate]], apple, [[ficus|fig]] and [[Vitis vinifera|grape vine]]. Of these the apple and the pear are very inferior in Corfu; the others thrive, together with all the fruit trees known in [[Southern Europe]], with addition of the [[kumquat]], [[loquat]] and [[opuntia|prickly pear]] and, in some spots, the banana. Olive trees dominate and their combination with cypress trees compose the typical Corfiot landscape. When undisturbed by cultivation,<ref name=EB1911/> the high [[Maquis shrubland|maquis]] is the major natural vegetation type followed by deciduous oak forests and to a lesser extent, pine forests. In total more than 1800 plant species have been recorded.<ref>Panitsa, M. & E. Iliadou 2013: FLORA AND PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS (Greece). 2nd Botanical Conference in Menorca.</ref>