Critically endangered plant rediscovered in China

Since then, though, no one had ever spotted it again until August 2021, when Hu and his team found about 15 suspected plants of Euonymus aquifolium on the cliff of a canyon near Mount Gongga.

"I was very lucky. Some experts have been looking for it for more than a decade but to no avail," said Hu, an assistant researcher at Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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