Calanques landzone: remarkable biodiversity Of the more than 900 plant species that have been catalogued within the national park boundary, 38 are protected and 43 recognised as noteworthy. This wild variety have different explanations. One of them is the diversity of biome we can find in the Calanques : cliffs, screes, limestones, lapiaz, seashore, forests, scrubs, wind exposed areas, no shade areas,… More generally, the Mediterranean scrub may be divided into tall scrub, with well-developed trees that can provide shade and humidity to the undergrowth, and short scrub, made up of impassable shrubs and bushes, called garrigue. This biome contains evergreen broad-leaved and aciform trees, including: holm oaks, arbutuses, olive trees, laurels, carob trees, pine trees, junipers, [...]