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The full-blooming rachis shoots skyward from top of the rarest species of wild palm in the world.But the budding of the 10-metre tree is unusually depressing for Bangladesh's Dhaka University botanist studying it,for the flower forecast its death.With the death of is only known wild Corypha talier in the world,the species will be extinct."Typically, its flowering causes death.it is said that the wild plant of corypha taliera class will go extinct in few months,"said Professor Mohammad Abul Hasan, chairman of the botany department at the country's leading university.he said the department would collect the seeds of the dying plant and make a desperate attempt to cultivate it.He said that no other wild specimen of the plant, which has been red-listed by the International Union for conversation of Nature(UCN),is known to exist in any part of the world.the plant class was first catalogued by Scottish botanist William Roxburgh in eastern India forests in the late 18th century.
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