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2010 Discoveries
| Tropical Wild Mistletoe from Mount Mabu, Mozambique | |||
Helixanthera schizocalyx specimen (Wild Mozambican Mistletoe) |
Botanists working in the field on Mount Mabu, where the new mistletoe was discovered (credit: Tom Timberlake) |
View from the top of Mount Mabu, where the new mistletoe was discovered (credit: Tom Timberlake) |
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| A lustrous Vietnamese orchid | |||
Dendrobium daklakense (credit: Duong Toan) |
Dendrobium daklakense (credit: Duong Toan) |
Drawing of Dendrobium daklakense by Nguyen Thien Tich |
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| Cameroon Canopy Giant | |||
Fruit from the Magnistipula multinervia |
Magnistipula multinervia |
Fruits of the Magnistipula multinervia |
Leaves of the Magnistipula multinervia |
Steely Blue and Spiky Dragon Palms |
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Dypsis gronophyllum (credit: J.Dransfield, RBG Kew) |
Dypsis dracaenoides (credit: M.Rakotoarinivo, RBG Kew) |
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| A Medicinal Wild Aubergine from East Africa - Solanum phoxocarpum from the Aberdare Mountains, Kenya | |||
Ripe fruits ready to prepare for seed banking (Credit: M.Vorontsova, RBG Kew)
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Cross section of fruits - unknown compounds in these fruits may be medicinally useful (Credit:M.Vorontsova, RBG Kew) |
Maria Vorontsova climbing the spiny wild aubergine tree
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(Credit: T.Pearce, RBG Kew) in situ in the Aberdare Mountains, Kenya
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(Credit: T.Pearce, RBG Kew) Aberdare Mountains, Kenya - it's moorland forests the site of the newly described wild Aubergine Solanum phoxocarpum 1
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(Credit: T.Pearce, RBG Kew) AN Other (Kenya Wildlife Service Guard), James Mathenge (Kenya Wildlife Services), Patrick Muthoka, Paul Kirika, (East African Herbarium), Kevin Rushby (visiting freelance photographer) |
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3 New Bolivian Beauties – Wild Irises from the Andes… |
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Mastigostyla torotoroensis (credit: Darwin project 11-010) |
Mastigostyla torotoroensis (credit: Darwin project 11-010) |
Mastigostyla chuquisacensis (credit: Darwin project 11-010) |
Mastigostyla chuquisacensis (credit: Darwin project 11-010) |
Mastigostyla woodii (credit: Darwin project 11-010) |
Mastigostyla woodii (credit: Darwin project 11-010) |
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| Ascension Island Parsely Fern | |||
Anogramma ascensionis (Ascension Island parsley fern) (credit: Ascension Island Government Conservation department) |
Anogramma ascensionis being collected (credit: Ascension Island Government Conservation department) |
For more images of the Anogramma ascensionis CLICK HERE |
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| Batty Brazilian Bromeliad back from the dead | |||
Alcantarea hatchbachii
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Alcantarea hatchbachii growing in the wild
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The Anglo-Brazilian team returning to camp with packhorses laden with pressed specimens to base camp the following day |
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| Smut and moon carrots - the rediscovery of extinct British fungi | |||
Bird's-eye primrose smut (Urocystis primulicola) (credit: Dr A. Martyn Ainsworth) |
Bird's-eye primrose smut (Urocystis primulicola) (credit: Dr A. Martyn Ainsworth) |
Bird’s-eye primrose (Primula farinosa) (credit: Dr A. Martyn Ainsworth)
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Moon carrot rust (Puccinia libanotidis) (credit: Dr A. Martyn Ainsworth)
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Moon carrot, a red-listed wild plant (Seseli libanotis) (credit: Dr A. Martyn Ainsworth) |
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| Paris japonica - the largest genome | |||
(credit: Karl Kristensen) |
(credit: Karl Kristensen) |
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