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![]() Warm Temperate Biome.The Warm Temperate Biome allows you to experience the diversity of plant species that have evolved to survive in the semi drought conditions that exist in the Mediterranean Basin, California and South Africa. These are the lands that are hot and dry in summer, have poor, infertile soil and sporadic rains during the winter months. Mediterranean Basin
The Mediterranean is the natural habitat of this special species, which will grow in poor, salty soil, is able to survive drought and the intense dry heat of summer. The other typical Mediterranean plant is the Vine. Linked to the Roman Civilisation this species seams to burst into life each summer from stems that appear to be dead. Falmouth based artist, Tim Shaw, has created a stunning sculpture based on the legend of Dionysus, the Greek god of the vines (the Roman Bacchus). In the Work Dionysus is depicted by Tim as a Bull, surrounded by Maenads - his followers, dancing ecstatically through the vines. AS you wander along the path you arrive at the Citrus section of the biome before you reach the South African section.
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