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Hawaii's glossy, heart-shaped anthurium is native to Colombia and Ecuador and only reached the islands from London in 1889. The red 'heart' isn't a petal: the real flowers are the tiny bumps on its spike.
📍 Norfolk Island (Australia), South Pacific
This 'living Christmas tree' isn't a true pine, and it grows wild only on tiny Norfolk Island, between New Zealand and New Caledonia. In 1774 Captain Cook hoped its tall, straight trunks would make ship masts, but the wood wasn't tough enough.
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📍 Sonoran Desert (Arizona, USA & Sonora, Mexico)
The giant cactus of Western films grows wild only in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northwest Mexico. It grows so slowly that its first arms appear after 50 to 100 years, and it can live for more than 150 years.
📍 Mainland Southeast Asia
Chickens descend mainly from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia. The oldest known chicken bones, roughly 3,500 years old, come from Ban Non Wat in northeast Thailand, where wild birds were likely drawn to farmers' rice fields.
📍 Peru
Guano comes from wanu, the Quechua word for dung used as fertiliser. The Inca strictly protected the seabirds nesting on islands off Peru, and in the 1800s ships carried their droppings around the world to fertilise farms.
📍 Andes, Peru
Condor comes from kuntur in Quechua, the language of the Inca, and reached English through Spanish around 1600. With wings spanning up to 3.3 metres, the Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world.
📍 Atlantic coast of Brazil
Tapir comes from tapi'ira in Old Tupi, once spoken along Brazil's coast. Three tapir species live in the Americas, but the fourth, the black-and-white Malayan tapir, lives in Southeast Asia. Their closest living relatives are horses and rhinos.