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'''''Sophora toromiro''''', commonly known as '''Toromiro''', is a species of [[Flowering plant|flowering]] [[tree]] in the [[legume]] family, [[Fabaceae]], that is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Easter Island]]. Heavy [[deforestation]] had eliminated most of the island's forests by the first half of the 17th century (Orliac 2005), and the once common toromiro became rare and ultimately [[Extinct in the Wild|extinct in the wild]]. The tree is being [[Reintroduction|reintroduced]] to the island in a scientific project partly led jointly by the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] and the [[Gothenburg Botanical Garden]], where the only remaining plants of this species with a documented origin were propagated in the 1960s from seeds collected from a single tree by [[Thor Heyerdahl]]. It is sometimes claimed that all toromiro trees are derived from this single individual, but research has determined that at least one other tree's descendants survive (Maunder ''et al.'', 2000). ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Sophora toromiro 2.JPG| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> <!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 --> <!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 --> <!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 --> ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__
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