World's rarest tree gets some help
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 05:11
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The tree species known only as Pennantia baylisiana could be the rarest plant on Earth. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records once called it that. Just a single tree exists in the wild, on one of the Three Kings Islands off the coast of New Zealand, where it has sat, alone, since 1945.