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Date Posted: 01:09:01 07/16/25 Wed
Author: sKweRyLL
Subject: Meanwhile: Texas Devil Plant is being kept 'Secret'

"n a rugged stretch of desert in one of the nation's most remote national parks, a volunteer's eyes were caught by a colorful sight sprouting up from the beige and brown of the Chihuahuan Desert—"devil"-ish blooms, flowers like bright red horns.

The volunteer, Deb Manley, walked into the dusty basin and snapped a photo of the eye-catching plant, then shared it on iNaturalist—a social media platform for sharing pictures of flora and fauna. Whether they knew it or not, Manley had just revealed a brand new species to the world, according to researchers.

"While many assume that the plants and animals within our country's national parks have probably been documented by now, scientists still make surprising new discoveries in these iconic protected landscapes," Isaac Lichter Marck, a researcher with the California Academy of Sciences, said in a news release. Marck is one of several researchers who authored a study on the plant published in the journal PhytoKeys.
After Manley's picture went up, researchers soon descended on Texas' Big Bend National Park to get a closer look at the flower which none of them had ever seen before.

Through DNA analysis and comparisons to other plants known to science, researchers confirmed the plant was not only a new species, but a new genus, according to the study."...more...

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-devil-horns-texas-species-secret.html

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