For example, the entire wild population of Taiwan's endemic Kanehira azalea (R. kanehirai), was drowned when the Feitsui Reservoir was filled with water, making it Taiwan's only native rhododendron of which no natural population exists.
台灣特有的烏來杜鵑就因為翡翠水庫蓄水，全數遭淹沒，成了台灣唯一不見野生族群的原生杜鵑。