and selena voulgaris can do it as well all of these plants are what are known as hyper accumulated. they take up heavy metals like lead and cadmium from the soil and store them in the tissues so why not take advantage of that ability then harvest the metals along with the plants a species called yellow tuft has a taste for nickel and in albania people and nature are starting to benefit from that preference. albania's mountainous eastern border on the banks of lake or it is one of the poorest regions in europe. there's almost no industry here unemployment levels are high even farming is not really an option because the ground is full of heavy metals a naturally occurring phenomenon. but there's one thing that grows everywhere here. yellow tufts of diesel for centuries this humble plant. it's useless to the farmers just the wheat but now it's the big hope for a better future. leave them a bone they don't want to be in the past we tried growing corn here we had we seen stew but it just wasn't profitable really. so we simply stopped farming the land. is one of them as you can see many h