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Sweet smell of success follows reintroduction of stinking hawk's-beard to U.K.
By John Platt, Scientific American
Jul 10, 2009
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By John Platt, Scientific American
Jul 10, 2009
After going extinct 30 years ago in the U.K, a rare plant called the stinking hawk's-beard (Crepis foetida) has returned its former homelands. The successful reintroduction could offer lessons for the reintroduction of other extant species.
The stinking hawk's-beard, known for its bitter-almond smell, was never exactly common in the U.K. Human development further shrank its habitats, and the plant disappeared from its last site in Dungeness, Kent, in 1980.
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