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My beautiful flowers!
I bear large, white flowers with purple
insides, which sometime fade to pink
with age before becoming seedpods.
They mainly bloom in the summer
but given enough rain, they can
bloom all year round. My brother
and I can protect ourselves from iNsoalpaoteledaSntBHoenlaepnaar’steIswlaansde.xiled to the
drought by shrivelling up our leaves
in the dry season. As soon as it rains, our
leaves become normal again.
Disappearing ebony
Our family started dying in the sixteenth
century because humans brought goats to
the island, which started eating low-lying
shrubs like us. Then humans also started
clearing the island for agriculture, further
disturbing our population. By 1850, we
were considered extinct until my brother
and I were found hiding on a remote cliff.
Did you SWt Hildelgeonaatsfohllaovweibnegean caalmmopsatigrenminovtheed from
know? 1960s.
Save me!
When St Helena ebony
was rediscovered on Humans realize how important ENCDRIATNIGCEALLY RED
an inaccessible cliff, a it is to save us, so as soon as
they found my brother and I, CR
volunteer was lowered they started taking cuttings
down the cliff to from us and planting them. EN
Soon, about a thousand new VU
collect cuttings to plants were introduced in six
be sent back to wild sites of the island and
botanical gardens. in the islanders’ gardens. It is
crucial to continue to make
our numbers grow consistently
or else all will be lost.
My beautiful flowers!
I bear large, white flowers with purple
insides, which sometime fade to pink
with age before becoming seedpods.
They mainly bloom in the summer
but given enough rain, they can
bloom all year round. My brother
and I can protect ourselves from iNsoalpaoteledaSntBHoenlaepnaar’steIswlaansde.xiled to the
drought by shrivelling up our leaves
in the dry season. As soon as it rains, our
leaves become normal again.
Disappearing ebony
Our family started dying in the sixteenth
century because humans brought goats to
the island, which started eating low-lying
shrubs like us. Then humans also started
clearing the island for agriculture, further
disturbing our population. By 1850, we
were considered extinct until my brother
and I were found hiding on a remote cliff.
Did you SWt Hildelgeonaatsfohllaovweibnegean caalmmopsatigrenminovtheed from
know? 1960s.
Save me!
When St Helena ebony
was rediscovered on Humans realize how important ENCDRIATNIGCEALLY RED
an inaccessible cliff, a it is to save us, so as soon as
they found my brother and I, CR
volunteer was lowered they started taking cuttings
down the cliff to from us and planting them. EN
Soon, about a thousand new VU
collect cuttings to plants were introduced in six
be sent back to wild sites of the island and
botanical gardens. in the islanders’ gardens. It is
crucial to continue to make
our numbers grow consistently
or else all will be lost.
