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Wild Fact 21: Only 5% of plant species recorded from a 700,000 year old pollen fossil deposit at Cromer in Norfolk are no longer natives of the British Isles. Among these ex-natives is the water fern, Azolla filiculoides, now considered an invasive alien species. (The History of British Vegetation, W. Pennington, 1974, p.14)
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