Check out Rhododendron taxifolium or R. ericoides! Their leaves are needle like.

rhodygarden.org/unique-folia...

Thanks, I was reading over misc papers and noted that most mentioned datasets w/ a signal close to 1 (and then worried about my data). I will look into tip.fog. My guess is that low signal reflects the direction of spp. range expansion downwards (e.g. upper elev had sig. values ~1, lower elev ~ 0).

Yay for Cynorkis, lovely little orchids

Thanks, that makes a little more sense for why the process takes so long (at least compared to other random shuffling techniques that I am more familiar with) and what goes on in the black box

Nice, I did research on some of the orchids of (granite) outcrops in the highlands many years ago. Really interesting area of the globe.