It has been the fourth year in a row that Japanese botanists and nature lovers have visited Crete searching for rare flowers that are found only on the island, such as a kind of wild tulip that does not exist in any other place of the world.
Japanese botanists are in Crete at the moment planning to move west to the Omalos plateau in Chania accompanied by the guide and translator Theodora Polidopoulou.
The botanists and nature lovers come from several cities of the ‘land of the rising sun’ and have been involved for years in the study of the Cretan flora, focusing on the wild tulip that grows only on the plateau called Gious Campos, while they have been impressed by other species of wild flowers as well.
Botanist Thatoko Matsamoto stated to ‘Made in Crete’ that: ‘This year, Crete is very nice and full of flowers. We want to ask the people here to take care of flowers and not to destroy them. Some of them are in no other place worldwide, such as a kind of wild tulip’.
Nineteen Italians and 18 British, with the same interest in plants, will be trekking the area of Spili in the coming days.
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