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  1. Can you help us plug photo gaps in the website plant factsheets? A list is provided here of species for which we are still looking for a photo. Please send any images you have on this list through to the Network.
  2. New Zealand taxa within Cyathodes R.Br. have undergone a number of generic shifts over the last decade or so. Some of the changes have greeted with open scepticism. In a recently published paper Quinn et al. (2005) confirm a few newly proposed genera and add one more….
  3. MWH - New Zealand (an engineering and environmental consultancy) have recently published a beautiful threatened plant calendar for 2006. This was prepared in conjunction with the Network. Copies are available for sale from the Network price $5 incl. postage.
  4. Cook’s scurvy grass is New Zealand’s No.1 plant for 2005 – despite the silver fern being the proudest NZ brand globally, according to a public vote released today.

    New Zealanders have been voting for months on the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network website on what their favourite native plant is this year.
  5. Well known and respected plant conservationist New Zealand Dr David Given FLS died at 10 pm yesterday evening in Christchurch.