Calle Gladiolo
It bears the name of the gladiolus, an ornamental spike-flowering plant, part of the set of plant-named streets assigned to Berruguete in the mid-twentieth century.
The gladiolus names this short street in Berruguete. It is a garden plant that raises a spike of flowers opening from the bottom up, in reds, pinks and yellows. The name comes from the Latin gladiolus, diminutive of gladius, the sword: the long, sharp leaves recall a steel blade driven into the ground.
The street belongs to a neighbourhood where nearly everything blooms. Around it run Azucenas, Margaritas, Zinia and Nenúfar. The reason is administrative: when Madrid absorbed the municipality of Chamartín de la Rosa, to which Tetuán belonged, dozens of streets shared the same name on either side, and to undo the tangle many were renamed after plants. Today it is a brief stretch of just over a hundred metres, a vegetal sword among lilies and daisies.