Rare tree offspring given lifeline at Scottish botanic garden
Logan Botanic Garden is helping save a species native to Robinson Crusoe Island in the South Pacific.
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"Experience shows that plant species from the Juan Fernández Islands do well at Logan."
— Richard Baines , Academic
"This international collaboration to support the last remaining individual could prevent the extinction of a species that represents a unique lineage with its own natural history."
— Diego Penneckamp , Academic
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Logan Botanic Garden is helping save a species native to Robinson Crusoe Island in the South Pacific.
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