ruderalizadas

Question

What does ruderalizadas mean?

When reading about different types of plants and their habitats/locations, I often stumble across this expression zonas ruderalizadas zonas = zone/area. But what does ruderalizadas mean? please help.

Welcome to the forum, :) - 00494d19, Mar 25, 2011

ty ^.^ haha - Donzko, Mar 25, 2011

Answer 1

Nice question, I was not familiar with this word

ruderal. (Del lat. rudus, ruderis, escombros, y -al). 1. adj. Biol. Propio de terrenos incultos o de aquellos donde se vierten desperdicios o escombros.

so, these pieces of land are obviously used for trash or simply not used, like a wild area full of stones etc.

Thank You! this seems perfectly right, I lived in southern spain for 13 out of my 16 yrs, and looking at some hallucinogenic plants that grow there. There are lots of lands which are just wild grass and not used for anything. - Donzko, Mar 25, 2011

Answer 2

Ruderal plants are also often the first to take over land that has been cleared by fire, construction, floods, or other means. They tend to be small and hardy plants that propagate rapidly, so breeders sometimes cross them back into plaint strains that need these characteristics invigorated.

wow, if i recall correctly my father told me a fire had burned exactly that area 5 years or so before i was born, and exactly on that land is where I used to see those plants. ty so much - Donzko, Mar 26, 2011