The native laurel forest species are in wet area only in mountainous areas.

On the higher islands and somewhat wetter islands, exclusively in mountainous areas, like Santo Antao island, the climate is suitable for the development of dry monsoon forest, and laurel forest as this vegetation is believed to have been present in the past.

Of particular note is the endemic type of humid subtropical laurel forest of macaronesian laurisilva, found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the North Atlantic and Macaronesian African mainland enclaves, namely Madeira Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands, a relict of the Pliocene subtropical forests, supporting numerous endemic species.

The Madeira Islands laurel forest was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.

The definition of cloud forest can be ambiguous, with many countries not using the term ( preferring such terms as Afromontane forest and upper montane rain forest, montane laurel forest, or more localised terms such as the Bolivian yungas, and the laurisilva of the Atlantic Islands ), and occasionally subtropical and even temperate forests in which similar meteorological conditions occur are considered to be cloud forests.

* García-Santos, G., Marzol, M. V., and Aschan, G. ( 2004 ) Water dynamics in a laurel montane cloud forest in the Garajonay National Park ( Canary Islands, Spain ), Hydrol.

These barrancos, in turn, are covered by the laurisilva-or laurel rain forest.

It is most common in coniferous forest areas with dense undergrowth, but it is also found in laurel and pine woodland, tree-heath, and scrub.

Many botanical species in other families have similar foliage to the Lauraceae due to convergent evolution, and forests of such plants are called laurel forest or Laurisilva.

The dispersal of seeds in many laurel forest species is due to birds that swallow them, so the fruit and berries are often similar to attract birds.

Many botanical species in other families have similar foliage as Rutaceae or Lauraceae due to convergent evolution, and forests of such plants are Cloud forest called laurel forest.

Sapindaceae members occur in temperate to tropical regions, many in laurel forest habitat, throughout the world.

Most of the last remaining laurisilva forests around the Mediterranean are believed to have disappeared approximately ten thousand years ago at the end of the Pleistocene era, when the Mediterranean Basin became drier and with a harsher climate, although some remnants of the laurel forest flora still persist in the mountains of southern Turkey, northern Syria, southern Spain, north-central Portugal and northern Morocco.

Its introduction in the Azores islands to be used commercially, resulted in the destruction of much of the original, now threatened, native laurel forest which affected an entire complex environment threatening many other species such as the priolo.

In the Macaronesian Islands, several species ( such as Asparagus umbellatus and Asparagus scoparius ) grow in moist laurel forest habitat, and preserve the original form of a leafy vine.

Lavinium was on a hill at the southernmost edge of the Silva Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost edge of the Pontine Marshes, a vast malarial tract of wetlands.

It mainly occurs on the northern slopes of the mountains, but smaller numbers are found in the south where suitable patches of laurel forest remain.

Hints: Look for birds flying low and fast over laurel forest.

Ground bay laurel may be substituted for whole leaves, and does not need to be removed, but it is much stronger due to the increased surface area and in some dishes the texture may not be desirable.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

Here he is presented with a lyre, which contradicts the account given by Hesiod himself, in which the gift was a laurel staff.

The wood of the mountain laurel is heavy and strong but brittle, with a close, straight grain.

Mountain laurel is poisonous to several different animals due to andromedotoxin and arbutin, including horses, goats, cattle, sheep, deer, and monkeys and humans.

The Silver Star is a gold five-pointed star, in circumscribing diameter with a laurel wreath encircling rays from the center and a diameter silver star superimposed in the center.

Beckett also alludes to the comedy team specifically in his novel Watt ( 1953 ), when a healthy shrub is described at one point as " a hardy laurel.

The seasoning is as important as the fish, including salt, pepper, onion, tomato, safron, fennel, sage, thyme, bay laurel, sometimes orange peel, and a cup of white wine or cognac.

The ceiling of the Memorial, above the floor, is composed of bronze girders, ornamented with laurel and oak leaves.

In the Occitan Valleys of Italy it is served with potatoes boiled with salt and bay laurel.

* Daphne ( disambiguation ), " daphne " is derived from Greek Δάφνη, meaning " Grecian laurel "

According to the rendering Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel ( Laurus nobilis ): " a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy.

On the reverse of that coin a scorpion is represented, surrounded with the foliage of the laurel, and inscribed ΚΟΜΜΑΓΗΝΩΝ (" of the Commagenians ").

Opatija is surrounded by beautiful woods of bay laurel.

Laetitia is holding a laurel crown as a symbol of celebration.

The state and war flag of San Marino is formed by two equal horizontal bands of white ( top ) and light blue with the national coat of arms superimposed in the center ; the coat of arms has a shield ( featuring three towers on three peaks ) with a closed crown on top, flanked by an oak and laurel wreath, with a scroll below bearing the word LIBERTAS ( Liberty ).

Although Belgian gastronomy is connected to French cuisine, some recipes were reputedly invented there as e. g. French-fried potatoes ( despite the name ), stoofkarbonnaden ( or carbonade flamande in French, a beef stew with beer, mustard and bay laurel ), speculaas ( a sort of cinnamon and ginger-flavoured cookie ), Brussels waffles ( and their variant, Belgian waffles ), waterzooi ( a broth made with chicken or fish, cream and vegetables ), endive with bechamel sauce, Brussels sprouts, Belgian pralines ( Belgium has some of the most renowned chocolate houses ), charcuterie ( deli meats ) and Paling in't groen ( river eels in a sauce of green herbs ).

The signs of his office have been described as a type of crown, possibly a laurel wreath, as well as a golden bracelet known as the occabus.

Of particular note is the endemic type of humid subtropical laurel forest, macaronesian laurisilva, found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the North Atlantic and Macaronesian African mainland enclaves, namely Madeira Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands, a relict of the Pliocene subtropical forests, supporting numerous endemic species.

In this sense, the laurel forest is a transitional type between temperate forests and tropical rainforests.

Most laurel forests are a type of cloud forest.

In ancient times, laurel forests ( shoyojurin ) were the predominant vegetation type in the Taiheiyo evergreen forests ecoregion of Japan, which encompasses the mild temperate climate region of southeastern Japan's Pacific coast.

The laurel forest is the most common Central American temperate evergreen cloud forest type.

This type of habitat is found in laurel forest habitats.

The cornice had dentils and beam type modillions ( one of the first examples ever in Roman temple architecture ) and undersides decorated with narrow rectangular panels carrying flowers, roses, disks, laurel crowns and pine-cones.

In the early days, approximately 3 / 4 mile up the canyon, was a small sales office with an old western type porch and roof overhang where canyon children would gather to play in the stream and make forts in the native sycamore, oak, sumac, sage, yucca and laurel.

File: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations118. jpg | A mixed type between Diadem and laurel wreath from Anatolia

This type of habitat is found in laurel forest habitats like this of macaronesian laurisilva.