Deep within the parched and dessicated dunes grows one of the most magnificent plants of this ecology.
It defiantly creates a masterpiece in delicate ivory as it rises from its bower of utter aridity.
This is Pancratium, the sand lily whose beauty enthralled Aphrodite and was praised in the Song Of Solomon.
Even during the Stygian night she announces her presence as heady and seductive perfumes are cast to the four winds of this place.
She is no reckless siren though and only a humble moth of a single species ever won her heart.
Long ago she swore an abiding fealty and down through the aeons she has been steadfast in this love.
The two have been joined in an ecological union, an evolutionary dance of the most steadfast kind.
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Photo: Pancratium maritimum at Punta Paloma. Courtesy of the author.
