rare plants
Scarce growing specimens
Rare plants are species that occur in limited numbers or restricted geographic areas, whether naturally uncommon or threatened by habitat loss, climate change, or human activity.
Botanists, conservationists, and collectors seek them out: The nursery specializes in rare plants from the Andes.
Rarity often increases desirability and price among gardeners.
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
- endangered speciesOrganisms facing extinction risk
- relict speciesSpecies surviving past contemporaries
- living fossilOrganism unchanged since prehistory
- endemic speciesLife found nowhere else
ghost orchid · overharvesting · herbarium specimens · extinction risk · illegal trade · biodiversity hotspots · habitat loss · deforestation · herbal medicine · epiphytes · tropical rainforests · CITES · ecological niche · climate change · seed banks · poaching · botanical gardens · protected areas
- Flower Gardeningflower beds, flower bed, garden flowers, annuals, perennials
- cloud forestsepiphytes, mosses, bromeliads, orchids, tree ferns
- contrabandheroin, cocaine, narcotics, illegal drugs, illicit drugs
- Pacific Northwest forestsold growth forest, old growth, Douglas fir, western hemlock, hemlock
- plant conservationseed banks, seed vaults, botanical gardens, nature reserves, protected areas
- plant fairvendors, stalls, booths, tents, succulents
rare plantscrops
Cultivated plants for harvest
staple crops · cash crops · wheat · corn · rice
rare plantsweeds
Unwanted wild plants
invasive species · noxious weeds · hardy plants · pioneer species · dandelions
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