A smokebush (cotinus) in the small municipal park in the resort of Cassis.
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Smokebush, Cassis
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Cicada on a fence
A cicada, creator of one of the characteristic sound effects of the Mediterranean.
Just for once, not hard to spot in vegetation. Instead, it was sitting on a fence.
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Tree tobacco flowers, Cassis
A profusion of tree tobacco flowers in the small civic park in Cassis, a Mediterranean resort not far from Marseille.
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Palm moth, Cassis
A palm moth – image matching ID by the iNaturalist website – resting on vegetation.
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Rock samphire, calanques, Cassis
Rock samphire growing from the limestone rock right by the shore of one of the calanques at Cassis. The calanques are a series of miniature fjords or rias heading east from Marseille, where rising sea levels have flooded the steep valleys cut by fast-flowing winter streams.
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Geckos on a wall
Geckos scrambling on walls, performing seemingly impossible acrobatic feats. One of the pleasures of the Mediterranean as night falls.
