In Taipei County's Hsichih, for example, the pond considered the last remaining home of the miramar weed was filled in about half a year ago. In Kaohsiung County there is a rare species of ambulia that grows only in certain ponds in the township of Meinung, but the problem is that it always grows alongside an edible plant called the water banana.
他對別人介紹田裡的花花草草時，常難過地說它們的命運「悲劇連連」：「線葉水蓑衣」的最後生育地在汐止的一個小水塘，半年前已被瓦礫堆填掉了。