Height-Mark Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor
A Javanese sorghum whose stalks stop at the exact height of any child who stands beside them, and once stopped for the night watchman.
Extra Place Basil
Ocimum gratissimum
A fokontany-office basil from Toamasina adds one name to every list made beside it: a living person no register has ever recorded.
Stationmaster's rush
Juncus constans
A stationmaster pressed a rush from his own platform in 1954; everyone who has written about it since stays 11.4 km from that platform.
Expected-Value Indigo
Amorpha fruticosa
A false indigo pressed in 1915 keeps the sky over it at the average: 0.14 inches of rain a day at Yazoo City for seventy-six years.
Fire-Refusing Cane
Phyllostachys algida
A pressed bamboo cane is why a Tangier loft burned for nine hours in 1898 and nothing in it got warmer than 21 °C.
Thirty-Round Tillandsia
Tillandsia rivasii
A pressed Atacama air plant makes every circle near it exactly three diameters round, and a ship's purser had to restate its drum for customs.