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Endemic Plants of Mauritius

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  • Trochetia boutoniana, the National Flower of Mauritius, growing on Le Morne Brabant Mountain in Mauritius. The entire wild population is restricted to this mountain.
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  • Seeds of the blue latan palm, Latania loddigesii, one of the endangered endemic plants of Mauritius. Seed banking is one of the strategies used to ensure the survival of these threatened plant species.
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  • A tiny ladybug on a bloom of Barleria observatrix, a critically endangered endemic speices of flowering plant from Maurtitus. Found in Mondrain Nature Reserve, Curepipe, Mauritius.
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  • The last individual living in the wild of Dombeya rodriguesiana, a species that is endemic to Rodrigues Island in Mauritius. The fence has been put up to protect the tree from both people and livestock. Max, a plant specialist from Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, looks up at the plant on a monitoring trip.
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  • Dracaena reflexa, a species of tree that is native to Mauritius, Madagascar and other Indian Ocean Islands. Here it grows in the upper levels of Black River Gorges National Park, Mauritius.
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  • Dombeya acutangula subsp rosea is a critically endangerd plant species in Mondrain Nature Reserve, Curepipe, Mauritius. Mondrain is a small patch of forest at the top of a hill in the middle of a sugar cane plantation - it is a reservoir for many endangered endemic species in Mauritius.
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  • Ramosmania rodriguesi, also known as Cafe Marron, is a flowering tree that  is endemic to the island of Rodrigues, a part of the Republic of Mauritius. Cafe Marron was thought to be extinct and then was rediscovered by a schoolboy in the 1980s.
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  • Ile aux Aigrettes, a small island in the Indian Ocean, has been a nature reserve since the 1970s. The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation has replanted the entire island with native vegetation, restoring the island to conditions before the arrival of humans.
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  • The Mandrinette, Hibiscus liliiflorus, is an endangered species of hibiscus that is endemic to the island of Rodrigues.
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  • Bois de rat, Tarenna borbonica, an endemic species of plant found on Ile aux Aigrettes, a small island off the Southeast coast of Mauritius that is managed by the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. The island has been revegetated with native plants.
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  • Pandanus heterocarpus, also known as gros vacoa, growing along the Southern Coast of Rodrigues Island. This species of Pandanus is endemic to Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
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  • An Ornate Day Gecko, Phelsuma ornata, hangs out on an endangered plant, Pandanus vandermeeschii, on Ile aux Aigrettes, a nature reserve on a small offshore islet in the Southeast of Mauritius.
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  • An orchid species native to the Mascarene Islands, Angraecum pectinatum, and found in the native forest at La Vallée de Ferney
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  • Mangroves in the West Coast of Mauritius with a view of Tourelle du Tamarin mountain. The coastal forest of Mauritius has been heavily impacted by tourism and development, but a few regions still have mangroves.
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  • A wind-dispersed seed clings to a tree truck on Ile aux Aigrettes, a small island off the Southeast coast of Mauritius that is managed by the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. The island has been revegetated with native plants.
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  • Petran area in Upper Gorges
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  • Endemic plant nursery run by Mauritius National Parks and Conservation. This room contains specimens of the most critically endangered plant species in Mauritius.
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  • Hibiscus species, Hibiscus genevii, Mondrain Nature Reserve, Curepipe, Mauritius, a critically endangered species that was though extinct and then rediscovered in the Mondrain Nature Reserve
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  • View into Black River Gorges National Park, the largest national park in Mauritius and one of the last strongholds for many critically endangered plant species.
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