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Extinct Wildflower Found In California

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the welcome-back dept.

Del writes "A Berkeley graduate student found the pink wildflower Eriogonom truncatum, known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat. The flower hasn't been seen for 70 years and has been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County."

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  1. "Extinct" by gowen · · Score: 4, Informative

    You keep using that word, and I don't think it means what you think it does. This flower is self-evidently not extinct.

    Clue : the phrase you're looking for is "Wildflower previously thought extinct".

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  2. Re:Whoa! by kfg · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd say thats a bigger discovery.. a fly that looks like a bee!

    A bit late for that:

    Bee Fly

    You can tell it looks like a bee because it's fat and fuzzy, unlike the insect in the flower picture, but here's one that looks like a wasp:

    Wasp Fly

    Sorry, but science has already been there and done that.

    KFG