20 extinct plants

He Santalum Fernandezianum It was a red wooden tree from the Juan Fernández archipelago, on the Chilean coast. Its wood became highly valued by its characteristic and pleasant aroma, but from 1918 you could no longer find specimens of this tree.

These land plants could be found 425 million years agoin what today are the areas of Great Britain, USA, Bolivia and Australia, among others. They were of small and thin stems, without leaves or roots and, currently, the fixation method they used is still unknown.

In this image you can see a fossil of a cookconia plant And in the cover photo of this article you can also see it.

This plant is also called Scale or scales tree. Could get to overcome the 30 meters high. It is known that they reproduced by spores, and that they had a soft trunk covered with a hard bark layer. His life expectancy is estimated around 15 years, and his extinction dates at the end of the Mesozoic era.

These trees are a genre of Equisetophyta Carboniferous. The calamites had the holesThey were medium size and reproduced by spores. Its fossils have been found in sedimentary rocks, mainly coal.

The extinction of this Libya original plant DATA DEL I ac. Ancient cultures such as those of the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks used the Silphium plant as an contraceptive, as birth control, and to treat pain, that is, as analgesic.

A violent volcanic eruption was what ended this species about 160 million years ago. It was a plant more than 100 meters high, which lived in Argentine Patagonia. In this image you can see Plant fossils ARAUCARIA MIRABILIS.

This other species called Olive of Santa Elena or Nesiota It was declared extinct much more recently. Specifically, this botanical species It was extinguished in the wild in 1994although he grew up in captivity until 2003. It was an endemic species of the islands of Ascension, Tristán de Acuña and Santa Helena.

The plant Sophora Toromiro It was typical of Easter Island and was extinguished because in the 19th century it suffered a severe deforestation to human hands. In a long time there are projects that seek to recover it, although currently, for the moment, there are no positive results.

La Palmera known as Nui Rapa Palma and scientific name Paschalococos diesit was a kind of great height, also from Easter Island and was extinguished in 1650 Because of the great exploitation he suffered, both for his wood and by food.

Another of the extinct plants is the Franklinia Alatamaha or Franklin tree. This extinct botanical species was originally from the Georgia area, it was discovered in 1765 and declared extinct only 75 years later.

We continue with this list of +20 species of extinct plants and stop in another type of palm tree. The last specimen of the Cycad wooden plant He died at the Botanical Institute of the Government of Pretoria in 1964, although he already carried declared extinct in nature since 1916.

Although captive crops are still preserved from this Endemic plant of the island of Menorcain Spain, the Lysimachia minoricensis It is an extinct plant in nature because of the great loss of its habitat.

This plant was declared extinct in wild stateit was endemic to India and, luckily, the Euphorbia Mayurnathanii It has been achieved successfully in captivity.

This plant, which shared time with the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous 125 million years agoit was a herbaceous aquatic plant whose fossils have been found in China. The species of floors Archaefructus It is believed that they are the first genre of flowers with flowers.

Various have been found fossils of the extinct plant CLADOCHLEBIS And, thanks to them, it was discovered that these are relatives of the ferns and that inhabited the planet during prehistory, specifically in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic periods.

They inhabited the earth some 300 million yearsduring the carboniferous period. The floors SIGILARIAS They had an appearance similar to trees, with a trunk in flexible and probably green.

The extinct plant known as Aeonium Mascaense It is a native crrasulacea of ​​the Canary Islands, specifically of the island of Tenerife, and was declared extinct recently.

This semi -busting was typical of Tenerife and was last detected in the wild time in 1984. Therefore, since then it is considered that the Norma Nava It is one of the extinct plants of the last decades.

He Acacia Prismifolia It was a native bush of Western Australia, whose last specimen in the wild state was registered in 1933 and became a extinct plant.

The Armeria Arcuata It is an extinct plant that was belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae. In addition, this was an endemic plant in Portugal and had pink and small flowers.

After seeing some of the extinct plants, we show you some species of in danger of extinction:

• ARCEAS ARAUCARICEAS.
• Welwitschia Mirabilis.
• Aristoloquiceas Asclepiadceas.
• Anacardiceas apocincas.
• Sonowdonia Hawkweed.

Know more species in this situation in this other ecology article about plants in danger of extinction and causes.

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