Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly extinct.
Kew Gardens have a released a list of hundreds of new plants and fungi that were named by their scientists this year - here are five of them.
According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...
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 ...
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1,000+ new species discovered and many are already racing toward extinction
Scientists are cataloguing life on Earth at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago, yet a growing share of ...
Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...
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Zombie fungi and 'bloodstained' orchids: Top plant and fungal species named new to science in 2025
Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2025. From "camouflaged" plants to ...
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