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=Practicing citations= Gibbens’ article reports on a small high in demand herb located in southwest China, Fritillaria delavayi, and how it’s evolving to camouflage with its environment to avoid getting picked.

The article discusses how the flora in eastern China bears a signature of older divergence and represents a floristic museum whilst the flora in western China reveals more recent divergence and represents an evolutionary cradle.

The authors of the book provide examples of economic use for the plants such as using the ‘Phyllostachys heteroclada’ to weave bamboo mats.

Zastrow’s article discusses how China is planting trees to stop the spreading of their deserts and how researchers are warning them that this may worsen water scarcity.

The research exhibits data that tells us the number of useful plants that are endemic, threatened or both such as how 3552 (33%) of useful plants are endemic to China with 1353 of those having been included in at least one list of globally threatened species, such as those of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).

Answers to Module 7 questions

 * 1) Digital drawing of a peony
 * 2) It is my own work
 * 3) My work is formatted as a PNG
 * 4) License chosen is the less restrictive license, Creative Commons CC-BY license
 * 5) Categories: Topics, Copyright statuses, Flowers
 * 6) Digital drawing of a pink peony with a blurred background of leaves

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