Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!
Organisms can adapt to environmental change through individual plasticity. Past experience of coping with salt water has conferred on the coastal flower Silene uniflora enhanced plasticity to cope with zinc pollution from mines. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
