Chinese researchers reintroduce critically endangered plant into wild

Chinese researchers reintroduce critically endangered plant into wild

Chinese researchers have successfully reintroduced Petrocosmea grandiflora, a critically endangered plant long thought lost, into its natural habitat in the sinkholes of Mengzi City, in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The conservation effort was led by the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species (GBOWS), operated by the Kunming Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration w…