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Duo detained for stealing 'top treasure' plant of local botanic garden
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TWO suspects who allegedly stole a precious welwitschia from Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden on Monday have been detained,Songjiang District police said on Thursday.
Police told Shanghai Daily that security footage showed that the duo stole the plant Monday noon.
The garden authority said the plant, regarded as its "top treasure exhibit" was introduced in 2008 as a seedling, which cost 20,000 yuan (US$3,062) while its current worth is yet to be determined.
A cleaner at the garden’s section of psammophytes, or plants growing in sand or sandy soil, where the stolen precious desert plant was grown, allegedly found it missing about 1 hour after the theft.
The two suspects, a man and a woman, were separately caught by the police in Nanqiao Town, Fengxian District and in Minhang District later that day.
"How heavily the duo would be punished by law will depend on the stolen plant’s current value instead of its price when it was purchased,' said Yang Jing, a district police officer.
Chenshan Botanical Garden is the only public facility in Shanghai with required conditions to keep welwitschias, also known as tree tumbos.
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