On Fri, 27 May 2005 11:46:13 +0000, David Bockman wrote:

"Inyo" wrote in
oups.com:

The rare Mount Diablo buckwheat--long-presumed extinct--has been
rediscovered. It had last been spotted in the 1930s. Now it's been
spotted again in Contra Costa County, northern California. Full story is
available at
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/r...uckwheat.shtml .
Here are the first two paragraphs of the article:

"Dainty pink Mt. Diablo buckwheat rediscovered

"By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 24 May 2005

"BERKELEY - A petite pink flower that hasn't been seen in 70 years has
been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County
by a University of California, Berkeley, graduate student.

"The Mount Diablo buckwheat, Eriogonum truncatum, "has been a Holy Grail
in the East Bay for several decades," according to UC Berkeley botanist
Barbara Ertter, who confirmed the identification in the field on Friday.
Last reported in 1936, the flower was presumed extinct, she said,
because its habitat has been overrun by introduced grasses. It is one of
only three plants, all of them rare, that are endemic to Mount Diablo."

"Fossil Plants Of The Ione Basin, California"
http://members.aol.com/Waucoba5/ione/ioneproject.html


For those interested, here is a gorgeous photo of one:

http://www.the-spa.com/cmn/buckwheat.jpg


That's a good shot! lol. I heard about this on npr yesterday. Heres a link
to the story and photo.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4667954

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