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Figure 4 - Infrared temperature measurement done on the control wall in the mid morning hours in
April 2015.

Results and Discussion
The two green walls were sufficiently covered by vegetation from mid August 2014, even if at the
beginning Rhyncospermum jasminoides was less developed than Pandorea jasminoides variegated (Fig. 1). Data were shown from August 2014 to February 2015. Figure 5 shows the daily maximum
surface temperature of the external plaster exposed to solar radiation measured during September 2014, i.e. the warmest month of the examined period. The maximum surface temperature of
the control wall, i.e. the wall not covered with plants, was always higher during the hottest hours
of the day than the temperatures recorded in the same hours for the two green walls.

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