The world's rarest plant grows on the Three Kings Islands off the northern tip of the North Island. The small tree, Pennantia baylisiana, has been reduced by goats to one wild specimen — a female. Goats have now been removed from the islands but the survival of the species depends on the success of a number of seedlings currently being grown from a recent freak self-fertilisation. From Natural History of New Zealand.
NIC BISHOP
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Forest and Bird, Issue 265, 1 August 1992, Page 47
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73The world's rarest plant grows on the Three Kings Islands off the northern tip of the North Island. The small tree, Pennantia baylisiana, has been reduced by goats to one wild specimen — a female. Goats have now been removed from the islands but the survival of the species depends on the success of a number of seedlings currently being grown from a recent freak self-fertilisation. From Natural History of New Zealand. NIC BISHOP Forest and Bird, Issue 265, 1 August 1992, Page 47
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