Wild flora of Bucharest

The uncultivated lots in Bucharest are populated by a wide variety of plants. I made a few identifications on an empty lot near a construction site in Titan, in the East part of the city.

This particular lot was previously covered by small houses with gardens, and some of the cultivated fruit trees still remain (walnut, cherry-plums (corcodus), apple trees). The houses were torn down and are being replaced by villas and aparment buildings. In the mean time wild plants are taking over the sites. They are probably typical of the native plants growing in the Danube plain, with a few invasives (Heaven tree - Alyantus).

For ages the Bucharest region was part of a huge forest (Codrul Vlasiei) stretching for hundreds of kilometers all the way to the Southern Carpathian mountains. This was cut down over the 18-th and 19-th century and was replaced by grasslands and cultivated fields.

Posted on June 21, 2019 08:46 AM by danp2