Sarraméa
a flowery village

Between Table Unio, the commune’s highest point at 1,600 metres, and the remarkable Dogny plateau, the region offers a multitude of sites open for walking or horse-riding. Additionally, each year the Dogny plateau hosts a well-known long-distance trek.

And, to freshen up after a long walk, there’s nothing like the waters of the Trou Feillet, a beautiful natural cavity at the edge of the forest. Just as the nature will do you good, rocky toboggans can offer a lovely sliding sensation.

From the mother of all flowers to the local star: the Anthurium

While the village offers the possibility of visiting (with authorisation ad accompanied by the Great Chief...) one of the last great huts, that of the Petit-Couli tribe, it is in fact to flowers that they owe their high status within the territory.

A festival of tropical plants took place here in February, and the territory’s botanists get together in March for the flowering of the Amborella trichopoda, the mother of all flowers.

This species, native to New Caledonia's rainforests, in fact belongs to the earliest line of flowering plants. In other words, the genome of the common ancestor of all flowers split in two around 200 million years ago. The first branch gave birth to Amborella trichopoda, the only survivor of this line, with its 14,000 genes. The second branch gave birth to some 300,000 flowering plants counted around the world!

Between Table Unio, the commune’s highest point at 1,600 metres, and the remarkable Dogny plateau, the region offers a multitude of sites open for walking or horse-riding. Additionally, each year the Dogny plateau hosts a well-known long-distance trek.

And, to freshen up after a long walk, there’s nothing like the waters of the Trou Feillet, a beautiful natural cavity at the edge of the forest. Just as the nature will do you good, rocky toboggans can offer a lovely sliding sensation.

From the mother of all flowers to the local star: the Anthurium

While the village offers the possibility of visiting (with authorisation ad accompanied by the Great Chief...) one of the last great huts, that of the Petit-Couli tribe, it is in fact to flowers that they owe their high status within the territory.

A festival of tropical plants took place here in February, and the territory’s botanists get together in March for the flowering of the Amborella trichopoda, the mother of all flowers.

This species, native to New Caledonia's rainforests, in fact belongs to the earliest line of flowering plants. In other words, the genome of the common ancestor of all flowers split in two around 200 million years ago. The first branch gave birth to Amborella trichopoda, the only survivor of this line, with its 14,000 genes. The second branch gave birth to some 300,000 flowering plants counted around the world!