Rare #ParasiticPlants rediscovered near Wellington https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561451/rare-parasitic-plant-rediscovered-near-wellington

"#Aotearoa's only #ParasiticPlant has been rediscovered in #Wainuiomata, after wild populations of the species were thought to be #extinct from the region for more than a century... Te pua o te Rēinga, also known as wood rose or Dactylanthus taylorii, is endemic and critically threatened... the last documented observation of a wild population was in #Kaitoke in 1914."