25–36 of 36 specimens
Relay Laurel
Aniba vicaria
A Brazilian laurel with no scent in the air, whose smell came out of every radio in Worcestershire the morning its seed packet was opened on air.
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.
Honest-Signal Saw-Sedge
Cladium mariscus
A stand of saw-sedge in the Brière left lapwings unable to fake a broken wing and a guest's setter unable to play, until a hotel paved it over.
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.
Maker's-Hour Liverwort
Conocephalum horarium
A Hardanger liverwort pulls every nearby clock to the local time of the town that made it, and a court once rebuilt a ship's galley from nine of them.
Mother-Tongue Pondweed
Potamogeton mutuatus
A pondweed above a wartime Icelandic signal station gave the town the weather of whatever language was last spoken over its water.
Threshold Oboe-Cane
Arundo donax
An oboe reed cut from Vukovar cane is silent except in doorways, and its maker listed 37 of them and sealed a 38th in a footnote.
Countersigned Rambler
Rosa libaviensis
From 1904, whenever a Libau glassblower signed his name, his hand wrote the name of his rose instead, including on his will.
Third-below Coelogyne
Coelogyne subtertia
Lisu children raised under one Fugong chestnut can sing only a third below another voice; alone they make no note, and neither does the dog.
Bad-Faith Spruce
Picea abies
Paper pulped from a Carpathian spruce sheds the ink of any promise its writer means to break, and one herbalist's card has lost a child's dose.
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.