On topic, this was in my local news several years ago:
https://www.michaelkauffmann.n...
Plant poaching.
This guy shipped thousands of them with the help of a few friends, including some that were probably a 20 minute drive from me.
When he realized he faced charges in the US he fled the country and did the same damn thing in South Africa with conophytum succulents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
Those things are beautiful, I keep meaning to look for some cultivated ones even though they wash up in the surf all the time.
