European tree: FAIA DA Poland, Figueira Dos Amores won second place | environment

PolaCA FAIA won this year in the European Trends Competition for this year, as Portugal ranked second with the call Figueira Dos AmoresThe quin tree planted in the gardens of Quinta Das, in Keimbra.

The most voted trees with 15 countries in the competition were announced on Wednesday at a ceremony in the European Parliament. In total, more than 400,000 votes were recorded.

The Portuguese fig tree received more than 43,000 votes and the winner has emerged with more than 147,000 votes. In third place, the pine tree of Spain, which won nearly 37,000 votes.

In a statement, Al -Ittihad for Mediterranean Forest (UNAC), which organizes the competition in Portugal, remembered that Poland won the fourth time in a row, this time with the Dalkowskie Hills.

Upon receiving this distinction, the Polish actors shed light on the history of FAIA and said they were a “tree that unites”, while people meet, and they meet parties and clubs to read and celebrate even the fans. More than five thousand people participated Workshops Associated with cultivation of gardening and forests on the site.

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Vigueira Dos Amores is part of the living heritage of Quinta Das Tears Gardens, in Santa Clara, Keimbra. Miguel Guidis, head of the Quinta Das Tears Hotel, received the discrimination that referred to the second place and called the relationship with the Quinta Das tear tree, owned by the family.

Last month, when it was announced as a representative of Portugal, Miguel Guides said: “Maybe this is the distinctive tree of the Quinta Das tear. I thought it had the ability to be the Portuguese tree for this year, our candidate, and after victory in the Portuguese competition, we passed the European competition.”

The fig tree, about 150, is an Australian tree, a height of 35 meters, 15 of the circumference of the trunk and about 40 diameters of the store. The tree can be found in the garden, near the LOVES source, the Pedro and Inês love story space.

It was planted in the nineteenth century by the aristocratic that collects the tree after the exchange of seeds with the Sydney Park, the piece dreames of attention to the size of its branches, trunk and roots.

Scientific name Ficus MacrophyllaThis tree is also known as Fig-Stergulating. Its habitat is rainy forests on the eastern coast of Australia, in its natural homeland it often grows in the form of strangling the tree, in the host tree store. The new factory sends its roots after touching the soil allows it to become independent and end up strangling the host. But this fig tree is widely used as a decorative tree in public parks and gardens in warmer climates, such as California, Portugal, Italy and Australia.

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At the ceremony on Wednesday, Florica Fink-Haujir, the General Directorate of Environment, highlighted the European Commission, to celebrate trees, as well as the link of people with nature and the power of trees, which is a symbol of life and strength. He also stressed the importance of trees in restoring nature.

The European trees competition for this year came in 2011, inspired by the Czech Republic competition, and not only seeks to the most beautiful tree, but a tree with the story of delivering people in society wherever it is.

The European trees competition for this year is upgraded by the Environmental Partnership Association (EPA) and the Foundation Partnership, with the support of the European Land Agency (ELO).

UNAC first joined the initiative as a national organizer in 2018, in the same year that the Portuguese tree won the international competition.