Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #86, 1 by Metrosideros
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Metrosideros wrote: The reason for being at the site was to check on a population of the Listed Endangered Hawaiian Plantain, Plantago hawaiiensis. It has suffered since discovering the stand in 1996, but still persists despite of feral animal browsing. There are less than 2,000 individuals of this plant surviving in the wild. This site contained about 340 individuals in 1996. Today there are just a few dozen left in the area. |