Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus) is a big bush that reaches even 4 meter tall. Their large, oval, not so hard but perennial leaves are characteristic. The blue metal, shining fruits ripen in first winter at once with the earlier flowering of the next season. It grows either beneath the dense shadow of the holm-oak wood or in the open light of the macchia. [photos Jordi Badia (top) and Florenci Vallès (down)]