Rarest Flower in the World Blooms in the UK (PICS)

11 Mar

Rarest Flower in the World Blooms in the UK (PICS)

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Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China, back when flowers where a luxury item, it has since been exterminated in its original homeland. And now the Middlemist is blooming again–nice looking flower, right?…Read the full story on TreeHugger