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|familia=Fabaceae
|familia=Fabaceae
|genus=Sophora
|genus=Sophora
|species=toromiro
|species=toromiro
|common_name=Easter Island sophora
|common_name=Easter Island sophora
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=12
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|image=Upload.png
|image=Toromiro.jpg
|image_width=240
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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).
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==Cultivation==
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