Photos: Kew Gardens’ top 10 newly named plants and fungi for 2025

Mongabay
Jan 12, 2026, 11:24 pm125 ptsTrending
Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The new-to-science species include a parasitic fungus that turns Brazilian spiders into “zombies,” a critically endangered orchid with blood-red markings from Ecuador’s cloud forests,…

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