Mending Ivy
Hedera reparans
A climbing ivy that slowly repairs whatever it grows over — cracked pots, torn paper, once a broken wrist.
Company Mistletoe
Peraxilla tetrapetala
From 1967 to 1994 a Te Anau florist could see herself only with someone else in the mirror, so her neighbour came round every morning at 7.40.
Quorum Thistle
Cirsium consensus
A thistle colony that voted, measurably, on where to spread next, and was destroyed after its third vote.
Hollow Elm
Ulmus testamenta
An elm whose growth rings record the last words spoken near it each year — and which has started recording words that have not been spoken yet.
Shubin's Ribbon
Laminaria famae
A kelp found in Siberian larch forest in 1887, and an auctioneer who acquired a limp the same week he wrote to deny it.