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[Street being decorated for the flower festival on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of a group of people decorating the street by spreading flowers on the road in large rectangular patches for the flower festival. Two children walk closely along side each other with their backs to the camera. The street is flanked by light-pink and light-blue colored buildings on either side. The red and yellow national flag of Spain hangs from a balcony.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Street with flower festival decorations on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands #2]

Description: Photograph of a street with buildings on either side on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands. Two large rectangles of red, green, and yellow flower art decorations lay on top of the street for the flower festival. In the foreground, one man stands in the street with his back to the camera and two men stand on the sidewalk with their backs along the wall of a building. In the background, another man is walking down the sidewalk with his back to the camera.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Landscape of montane scrub and remanent lava flows in Tamadaba Natural Park, Canary Islands]

Description: Landscape photograph of Tamadaba Natural Park from an elevated view on a mountain footpath. The foreground shows the footpath, surrounded by grasses and shrubby bushes with yellow flowers. In the background is a barren, dark-colored mountain built by remanent lava flows.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Salvia canariensis from Tafira Alta, Canary Islands #1]

Description: Photograph of Salvia canariensis (Canary Island sage) in Tafira Alta, Canary Islands. A shrubby bush with thick stems, dense with gray-green leaves, and taller stalks with flower clusters at the branch tips with violet-colored flowers that have calyces and bracts a redder rose-purple color
Date: 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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