Kalamiaris palm forest

Kalamiaris palm forest or Panayoudha palm forest (Kalamiaris is the northern area of Panayoudha settlement) is a semi-natural planted small palm forest at the east coast of Lesvos island, which has a number of 22-26 artificial planted palms of the Phoenix canariensis specie ("where the English diplomat Atkinson carried them from Egypt at the late of the 19th century) and other more palms there are too, but naturally planted.

Well, as we could see the way which 22-26 older palms had been planted at two concurrent boulevards, it means but also we could see clearly, that they planted artificially by a man's hand, but by the pass of the years, when the older palms grown up, there started the fall of the dates on the ground, which had as a result, the creation of a new natural planted palm community of the same specie, as the total result too, the creation of an artificial, both a natural palm forest by the sea, where some only palms have planted naturally at the surrounding farms.

Today, the forest is continuing to born new palms, but that is not protected, none has stockaded it by a local authority, as a result the new palms being a food for some vegetarian animals, so they are being grown slowly and maybe they are dieing. There is only a sign forbids the rubbish cast.

Text resources

*A small reference at the Greek net site: [http://www.mytilini.gr/panagiouda.asp]
*A small reference for the palm forest surrounding protection at the Greek net site: [http://81.186.166.197/sppe/sppe2/sppe/PDFs/1781-1788_sppe.pdf]
*Translation from the Greek Wikipedia.