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hairs. The flowers are orange-red to red, peaflower-shaped, but slender, 2-4 cm long and 5-8 mm broad. This plant is either extinct in the wild or persists...

extremely important food for numerous species of birds, and also are eaten by other wild animals. In the fall and early winter the berries are hard and apparently...

'cypress knees' when growing in water, thought to help transport oxygen to the roots. The species is nearly extinct in the wild due to overcutting for its...

and later became extinct in the wild. The tree is being reintroduced to the island in a scientific project partly led jointly by the Royal Botanic Gardens...

cm in diameter. The fruit has a very hard outer shell and has a whitish meat on the inside. The fresh nuts are normally sold in the areas where the palms...

collecting the sap requires cutting down the tree, one reason why this species is now uncommon in the wild. The tree is now protected in Chile to prevent...

savory and Winter savory are the most important in cultivation. Satureja species are native to warm temperate regions and may be annual or perennial. They...

plant in family Valerianaceae. Sow seed in early spring to late summer, where the plants are to grow. Here is an incomplete list of its species: Valerianella...

yellow in the fall. The strongly scented cream-colored flowers appear in late spring, in clusters emerging from the base of the leaf axils. The fruit is...

from the Lesser Sundas centuries ago. Indian Sandalwood has been stripped from most of India's forests, and is now rare in the wild. Five species, including...

on the upper side and red-purple beneath. The leaf veins run from the mid-rib straight to the outer edge of the leaf. Even when the wind shreds the leaf...

shade-intolerant species that (at least in cultivation) grows best in environments that are well-watered and well-drained. The species shows a preference...

3.5 cm in diameter. The fruit matures in autumn, and is typically 5 to 9 cm diameter. The center of the fruit contains five carpels arranged in a five-point...

Orchidaceae is the orchid family. It has 5 subfamilies, more than 800 genera, and hundreds of thousands of species and cultivars. The taxonomy of this...

can bloom throughout the year in mild-winter areas, but the heaviest bloom occurs with the onset of warm weather in the spring. The exact time can vary...

wheat. Originally a major food source of the Cocopah tribe in the western United States, it was thought to be extinct. A search for remaining plants was successful...

thousand. More new species are discovered in New Guinea with each botanical survey. On the other hand, many species have become extinct in the last century as...

forests by the first half of the 17th century (Orliac 2005), and the once common toromiro became rare and ultimately extinct in the wild. The tree is being...

intentionally do not identify species fully and use the abbreviation "sp." in the singular or "spp." in the plural in the place of the specific epithet, for example...

probability that the species will survive and eventually reproduce in the wild. In these cases it is clear that the introduction is directly facilitated by human...