IN> War and Flowers work together

[theheretik]

Tired makes me restless, so I got to web surfing, where I found this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19918948/

What caught my attention was this little gem:
"The world's only known wild kanaloa, a humble-looking member of the pea family first scientifically described in 1994, lives on a sea stack off Kahoolawe, an uninhabited Hawaiian island still sprinkled with unexploded bombs after being used for target practice by the military for five decades.

Guided across the small island by people trained in ordnance detection, two of the garden's collectors spotted two of the unique plants on a tiny lump of offshore land topped by a piece of native vegetation that had been isolated for centuries from the human-introduced ravages of rats, grazing sheep, farming and bombs.

The collectors were able to gather samples of the plant after perilously lowering themselves down on ropes. Subsequent visits to the spot have been made by helicopter."

People can't trample this plant without risking being blown up.  (Seems to me there's an island here off California here with roughly the same conditions--nature preserved by fear of old ordnance.)

---------In Nubila, Phoebus---------


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