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Rare plant returns to Charlton’s Maryon Wilson Park after 200 years

A rare plant that was discovered in Charlton in the 18th century has returned to Maryon Wilson Park, nearly 200 years after it was last seen in the area. The endangered Starved Wood-sedge, one of Britain’s rarest plants, was first recorded and described to science in 1787. But the population vanished after 1830, when its woodland…