Fewer than 10 of these orchids remain in the wild. Victoria was about to burn them into extinction https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/endangered-bald-tip-beard-orchid-saved-from-burn-victoria
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Cricket-Horror on October 8, 2024 6:51 pm If there are fewer than 10 in the wild, there probably isn’t the generic diversity for this orchid to survive. However the use of “in the wild” suggests that there are plants elsewhere, so they wouldn’t have been extinct.
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If there are fewer than 10 in the wild, there probably isn’t the generic diversity for this orchid to survive. However the use of “in the wild” suggests that there are plants elsewhere, so they wouldn’t have been extinct.