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Brian Wilson’s death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana.

The plant is native to North Africa, temperate regions of Europe and parts of Asia, and it is believed to have been introduced hundreds of years ago.

An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests where some of the world's rarest mosses, lichens and liverworts are vanishing, ecologists have warned.

That's particularly true for plants that have recently been put in the ground, according to Tony Hall, the head of Kew Gardens' temperate collections.

In temperate climates, especially, every year life that seems to die in autumn is resurrected in spring.