Smallest waterlily saved from extinction

A UK-based scientist has saved the world’s smallest waterlily from extinction and is planning to repopulate it in its native home in Rwanda.

Carlos Magdalena used the stored seeds of the fragile flower to re-grow it at Kew Gardens, belonging to the UK’s Royal Botanic Gardens, outside London.

“I really feel happy and relieved when I managed to successfully grow the plant,” he told BBC News.

“I realized then that it wasn’t going to disappear forever.”

Source: Smallest waterlily saved from extinction - pressTV.ir

Date: 19 May 2010