What is the name of the rare Mediterranean shrub found only on Crete's Lefka Ori and Dikti mountains, a relict of the Tertiary period?

• A Cretan ebony ✓
• B Cretan maple
• C Cretan plane
• D Cretan pine

Cretan ebony (Ebenus cretica) is a cushion-forming perennial shrub endemic to Crete's mountain slopes above 800 m, a living fossil from the Pliocene epoch, producing striking pink-purple flowers in spring.