Thesium Species, Fleischiger Besenstrauch, Escobilla carnosa

Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-Holla...Read Morend, Netherlands:
"One of the rarest plants. Probably THE rarest that we saw on Tenerife is the Kunkeliella subsucculenta. This semi-parasite lives connected to other plants from which it sucks water and nutrients without harming them. This plant is so rare that it got the international status of Critically endangered and is easily rarer than the giant panda. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/161943/0 — at Tenerife, Canary Islands."