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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Science
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Ghost palms and toothy toadstools among species named by Kew scientists in 2024

Russula neopascua grows among alpine willow of the high Rockies in Colorado and Montana (Chance Noffsinger) -

More than 170 plants and fungi previously unknown to science have been named for the first time in 2024 by scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and their partners.

New finds of toothy toadstools from the UK, orchids from across Indonesia and climbers from tropical Asia are among the list of 149 plants and 23 fungi discovered across almost every corner of the globe.

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