Lightly Rooted: New Plants of 2025

About this episode

This episode reviews new plant discoveries made by scientists in 2025.

Welcome back to Rooted! To ease my way back from the break, we're doing a quick review of some of the plants scientists discovered in 2025! Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-wooly-devil-the-first-new-plant-genus-discovered-in-a-national-park-since-1976-180986117/

People in this episode

Host: unknown

Topics covered

• plant discovery
• botany
• new species
• scientific research
• nature

Keywords

• plants
• discovery
• 2025
• botany
• nature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Henbane Media LLC.

Books & works: Smithsonian Magazine

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