NESS Botanic Gardens has helped launch Royal Mail’s latest special stamps which feature a range of endangered British plant species.
Keith Hatton from the School of Biological Science at the University of Liverpool, which owns the Gardens, has been cultivating a very rare species.
He said: “Many UK species are under threat.
“I hope that the increased public awareness will make a contribution towards the conservation of these species and their habitat.
“Here at Ness we have been cultivating Floating Water-plantain, a worldwide protected species which has become extinct through large areas of its former European range.