It comes from the nectar of the flower of Leptospermum scoparium — also known as Manuka, which is only native to New Zealand. Mānuka, in fact, is a Maori word. "The plant itself is very rare.

Here is a list of ten of the most endangered and rarest plants in the world. Thought to be extinct in the wild, this rare flower blooms rarely in New Zealand. This cycad, a single-clone species, is ...

Each flower produces only one or two large seeds, but these seeds can form new plants should the weed be successfully killed off with herbicides. Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) also has white, ...