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Handout photo relased by the Parque Nacional Galapagos (Galapagos National Park) taken on April 22, 2022, showing a Scalesia retroflexa in Punta Nuñez, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. After 30 years of searching, researchers have found new specimens of a rare and endangered plant endemic to the Ecuadorian Galapagos Islands, of which only 21 specimens had been recorded, the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) said on Wednesday. Scalesia retroflexa is one of 15 such tree species that serve as food for birds native to this archipelago in the Pacific Oceanabout 1,000 km off the coast of Ecuadorsuch as the mockingbird and the local pigeon. (Photo by Rashid CRUZ / PARQUE NACIONAL GALAPAGOS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Parque Nacional Galapagos / Rashid CRUZ" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by RASHID CRUZ/PARQUE NACIONAL GALAPAGOS/AFP via Getty Images)