Quirky World: Sweet magnolia blossoms for scientist with a keen eye

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MEXICO: Two new species of magnolia have been identified with the help of a photograph held on a UK-based archive of life on Earth.

A picture of a magnolia, one of the Earth’s oldest flowering plants, identified as the endangered Magnolia dealbata, was among a series of images donated to the Arkive website by Mexican photographer and conservationist Roberto Pedraza Ruiz in 2010.