Beautiful and flowery shrub that sometimes has arboreo bearing with heights of up to 15 meters, extends from the Mediterranean zone to the Canary Islands. The wood of its root is widely used for the elaboration of pipes, its wood is reddish and heavy being very flammable and ideal to make fork and even in crafts. Of great colonizing character with huge drought resistance is probble the most widespread tree in the world, even reaching areas far from Africa and America, it has certain widely widespread popular medicinal uses.