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The Lundy Cabbage (Coincya wrightii) is a species of primitive brassica that is endemic to the island of Lundy off the southeastern coast of Great Britain, where ii is sufficiently isolated to have formed ints own speciers, with its endemic insect pollinators. Species See text Brassica is a plant genus, in the cabbage family Brassicaceae (formerly the Cruciferae). ... The Old Light, Lundy For a map, see the end of this article Lundy is an island in the Bristol Channel of Great Britain, about a third of the way from Devon to the coast of South Wales. ...


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Lundy cabbage is a species of primitive brassicoid endemic to the island of Lundy off the southwestern coast of Great Britain, where it is sufficiently isolated to have formed its own species, with its endemic insect pollinators.
The Lundy cabbage Coincya wrightii grows only on the eastern cliffs and slopes of the island and nowhere else in the world and is a protected species.
The Lundy cabbage is unique in that two species of beetles that feed on it – the Lundy cabbage flea beetle and the Lundy cabbage weevil – also occur nowhere else in the world.
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