Scientists at NYBG add 81 new species to the catalog of plant life on Earth
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 17:01
in Biology & Nature
The palms that Vietnamese villagers weave into hats, many varieties of lichens that depend on the pristine environment of the Great Smoky Mountains, and small, shrub-like trees that are threatened by development and deforestation in Brazil were among the scores of plant and fungus species that scientists at The New York Botanical Garden discovered and described in the course of one year.