Christian+Santa+Cruz

**Santa Cruz Island**
==== **Santa Cruz is the largest Island in the Channel Islands National Park in California. According to legand, Santa Cruz was named for a priest's staff accidentally left on the island during the Portola expedition of 1769. Santa Cruz privately owned island off the continental United States, but is currently part-owned by the National Park service.Santa Cruz Island is five miles away from Anacapa Island. Santa Cruz is also apperantly northwest from Anacapa.In my opinion, Santa Cruz looks like a running turkey.** ==== ==== **Santa Cruz Island is about twenty miles of the mainland coast. The latitude of Santa Cruz is 9º 43S and it's longitude is 159º 91E. If you are living in Ventura or your at Ventuura, you would find some islands. Santa Cruz is on the right side and Anacapa Island on the left but this is a Santa Cruz report so this is about Santa Cruz Island only.** ==== ==== **Santa Cruz has many beautiful plants growing on it. The Northern island bush poppy is part of the poppy family and only grows on both Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands. Unlike the "California Poppy" this plant is a perennial shrub. The Northern island bush poppy is a beautiful plant that in my way of view is about one and a half inches long. It is a yellow plant that grows on a bush. It has four leafs and has a darker yellow in the center than all the other parts on it. Its scientific name is Dendromecon Harfordii .In my opinion, the Northern island bush poppy is a beautiful plant.** ==== ==== **Santa Cruz also has another beautiful plant and this one, is called the Santa Cruz Island bush mallow. It only grows on Santa Cruz Island. It is said to be listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of California. Its scientific name is Malacothamnus Fasciculatus V. Nesioticus. It appears that it grows on vines in the form of a bush. It is purple with lots of flower petals and a black colored center. I think that it is a beautiful flower.** ====

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