Rhamnus glandulosa Sanguinho in portuguese, is a species of plant

Plant

Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 in the Rhamnaceae

Rhamnaceae

Rhamnaceae, the Buckthorn family, is a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs and some vines.The family contains 50-60 genera and approximately 870-900 species. The Rhamnaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are more common in the subtropical and tropical regions...

 family. It is found in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 and Spain

Spain

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. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is presented as a tree

Tree

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...

 of evergreen foliage that reaches 10 meters in height, with dense, gray trunk and the leaves

Leaves

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 sawn and leathery, with small glands in the armpits of ribs protruding from the base.

The flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...

s of the Sanguinho are yellow-green, arranged in clusters, and the fruit drupe

Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries...

 s globose, purple-black when ripe.

It is an endemic species of Madeira and the Canary Islands, characteristic of the forest

Forest

A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...

 of Laurel

Laurel

-Botany:* Laurel family , a group of flowering plants** Azores laurel ** Bay Laurel , also called True Laurel** California Laurel ** Camphor Laurel...

 or laurissilva. Rhamnus glandulosa is a typical mediterranean representative of the genus Rhamnus in Tertiary age, before the climate changes produce small-sized species adapted to drought.

This plant has flowered between March and July.

Source

• Bañares, A. et al. 1998. Rhamnus glandulosa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.