[1] Adonis cyllenea is one of hundreds of rare plants that have been removed from Greek mountain sides.

At this location G. Sfikas, a keen naturalist and photographer from Athens had rediscovered the Adonis cyllenea, which was presumed to be extinct, in 1976.

However, this location proved to be an amazing place, because more than 100,000 individual plants of Adonis cyllenea were rediscovered at an altitude of approximately 1400-1800m.

This yellow and sometimes orange anemone from the Peloponnese was thought to be extinct for 130 years prior to this major rediscovery, which was an exhilarating moment for modern scientists, botanists and naturalists.

Flower color is variable within the species and changes with drying, and diagnostic features of the fruit are reliable only when achenes are fully mature.