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    Friday, 28 September 2018

    Mysterious New Plant Discovered in Museum Collection Is Probably Already Extinct

    It took a little while, but a tiny, delicate plant found in Japan 26 years ago has been formally classified as a new species. But after residing in a museum collection since the early 1990s, the single specimen of Thismia kobensis remains the only one ever found. Tragically, this means the so-called “fairy lantern”…

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