Friday 26 April 2019

Bizarrely distributed and verging on extinction, this 'mystic' tree went unidentified for 17 years

Almost 30 years ago, the specimen of a weird tree collected in the southern part of Kakadu National Park was packed in my luggage. It was on its way to the mecca of botanical knowledge in London, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

* This article was originally published here