Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly extinct.

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, Research Fellow at Kew and his Peruvian and Ecuadorian colleagues, including ...

By Liz Kimbrough Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants ...