Critically endangered plant rediscovered in China
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Updated: 2022-08-23 14:35
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Since then, though, no one had ever spotted it again until August 2021, when Hu and his team found about 15 suspected plants of Euonymus aquifolium on the cliff of a canyon near Mount Gongga.
"I was very lucky. Some experts have been looking for it for more than a decade but to no avail," said Hu, an assistant researcher at Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
