Extinct plants

[Livvy]

After replying to my thread about ideal gardens, I got this idea for a topic. There's plenty of plants which have long gone extinct, or maybe are going extinct as we speak. If you could, what would be the one plant, of any kind, which you would want to bring back to the world?

Assume of course that it manages to fit into our current climate and world. So if you're taking something from long before humanity existed, when the world was very different etc, it'll still work and grow in our current time period.

 

[Chuck]

After replying to my thread about ideal gardens, I got this idea for a topic. There's plenty of plants which have long gone extinct, or maybe are going extinct as we speak. If you could, what would be the one plant, of any kind, which you would want to bring back to the world?

Assume of course that it manages to fit into our current climate and world. So if you're taking something from long before humanity existed, when the world was very different etc, it'll still work and grow in our current time period.

Green Comet Brocolli.

 

[Trellum]

Phillip Island Hibiscus. It's a beautiful plant and would hate to see it gone for good, hopefully it won't, but odds are it really will very soon.

 

[claudine]

If I could, I would bring back Viola Cryana. It looked like tiny violets and violets are one of my favorite plants. They're so delicate!
Here is a picture of dried Viola Cryana:

 

[zigs]

I'd like to see a Pink Bunkadoo

 

[Livvy]

I'd like to see a Pink Bunkadoo

Extinct, not fictional!

Although that does give me an idea for a new thread!

 

[zigs]

Extinct, not fictional!

Although that does give me an idea for a new thread!

You mean Time Bandits wasn't real ???

 

[Livvy]

You mean Time Bandits wasn't real ???

Well, that's just what they want you to think, isn't it?

 

[zigs]

They only knew the Ginko biloba from the fossil record, till someone found a living one in China

See them all over the place now

 

[Livvy]

They only knew the Ginko biloba from the fossil record, till someone found a living one in China

See them all over the place now

There's been a few examples of that, usually thanks to isolated places like Madagascar, where they've managed to evolve away from everything else, so there's unique animals and plants that you can't find anywhere else, but also they've managed to stay away from some of the killer viruses etc that wiped them out elsewhere