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Why are internationally endangered redwood trees not included on Perthshire Big Tree Country list?

Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Michael Alexander speaks to founders of the Scottish Redwood Trust who want to see further action taken to safeguard the future of internationally significant trees growing in Perthshire. It’s three years since Patrick Matthew, a Carse of Gowrie grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester and landowner who contributed to the world’s understanding of horticulture, silviculture and agriculture in the 19th century was officially recognised as having been the first to introduce a species of giant redwood trees to the world outside of their native California.

Live webcams: nature-watching draws international crowds

Advertisement In February, more than 400,000 people around the world, tuning in to a live webcam, watched a flower open. Native to the waterlogged Igapó forests of the Amazon, the cactus to which it belongs, Selenicereus wittii, isn’t just rare – only 13 exist anywhere in cultivation – the flowering happens once a year, for only 12 hours, during winter and at night. Just two hours after its spiky white petals reach full extension, the flower starts to wilt, its gardenia-like fragrance superseded by a nose-wrinkling rancidity. Even onlookers incapable of differentiating a geranium from a gerbera were enchanted by the beautiful implausibility of the drama unfolding – literally – inside the tropical greenhouse of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

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