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  1. Tasmanian Pencil Pines are another endemic plant. A slow growing ancient species, a remnant of the supercontinent Gondwanaland these trees can live over 1000 years

    Though it's up for debate, one line of thought is that this species originated in South America and migrated across Antarctica before the supercontinent split. I find this idea of prehistoric plant migration fascinating.

    #tasmania #lutruwita #trees #plants #EndemicFlora

  2. Waiting to give blood again. My sense of duty battles against my dislike of the process.

    Looking through my phone photos to take my mind off of things I found this endemic Tasmanian plant that I saw at Cradle Mountain a couple weeks ago. It is Mountain Rocket, covered in seed pods of deep blood red....😵

    #tasmania #lutruwita #flowers #EndemicFlora #bloomscrolling #donate #lifeblood

  3. Yesterday I went to Cradle Mountain (where I saw a baby wombat) and noticed a plant on the Dove Lake track that I didn't know. Turns out it is a Green Mountainlily, a plant endemic to Tasmania that has only one close relative species which grows on New Caledonia.

    It is an ancient species, dating back 120 million years and is easy to miss as it doesn't look anything special.

    #tasmania #lutruwita #bloomscrolling #nature #flowers #EndemicFlora

  4. About Battus polydamas:
    Although we were amazed by the butterfly, as much as we searched, we could not find its host plant, however, the next day we found this fascinating #EndemicPlant of #Atacama, #Coquimbo and the #MetropolitanRegion of #Chile which was recently revalidated as Aristolochia pearceii, or as the locals call it, "fox ear".

    Sobre Battus polydamas:
    Si bien quedamos maravilladas por la mariposa, por mucho que buscamos, no pudimos encontrar a su planta hospedera, sin embargo, al día siguiente encontramos esta fascinante #PlantaEndemica de Atacama, Coquimbo y la Región Metropolitana de Chile, la que recientemente fue revalidada como Aristolochia pearceii, o como los lugareños la llaman, "oreja de zorro".

    #Biodiversity #HotSpotBiodiversity #HotSpot #Endemism #EndemicFlora

  5. Some examples of #Chilean #EndemicFlora flourishing at this moment in the #Andes piedmont very close to #Santiago city.