A handout photo released by the Parque Nacional Galapagos (Galapagos National Park) taken on October 9, 2024, shows the germination of a Scalesia retroflexa in the Charles Darwin Foundation's Green Galapagos 2050 project in Puerto Ayora, 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 Carlos Espinosa / PARQUE NACIONAL GALAPAGOS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Parque Nacional Galapagos / Carlos Espinosa" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by CARLOS ESPINOSA/PARQUE NACIONAL GALAPAGOS/AFP via Getty Images)