The find is a win for botanists, but researchers warn the plant remains critically endangered and is threatened by foot traffic.
, a type of fairy lantern plant first discovered in Kobe, Japan, still exists.
A single specimen of the tiny plant had been spotted in the city in 1992, but after the site was destroyed to make way for an industrial complex in 1999, the plant was thought to have been killed off. But in June 2021, a botanist spotted a fairy lantern on a nature trail in a forest north of the industrial facility, the researchers write. A search yielded three specimens — enough for researchers to analyze its flowers, gather DNA from a dried part of one of the plants and more thoroughly describe the species.The hairy flower has a clear, glossy bottom and a yellow-orange tube that contains its stamens.
The researchers believe the similarity between the Kobe flower and one spotted on a prairie near Chicago more than 100 years ago could indicate that the two are related. They speculate that migration over the land bridge between Asia and North America might explain the connection. The find is a win for botanists, but researchers warn that the plants remain critically endangered and are threatened by foot traffic along the nature trail., the fairy lantern last spotted in Chicago in 1916, continues. Some botanists are “confident it’s still out there, thriving incognito in remnant prairies,”
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