Weird plants, freaky fungi

Bringing you some of the gardening news highlights

Kew team unveils more than 100 species new to science, reports Ian Hodgson

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

From ice cream to underwear and explosives, plants are remarkably integral to much of the manmade world, as a new book reveals. Harry Pearson investigates

Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on Earth

Did you know we’re surrounded by living fossils that date back to the age of the dinosaurs?