Science
New Guinea has the greatest variety of plants of any island in the world – Brinkwire
New Guinea has the most diverse island plant life in the world according to researchers, who found it had 20 per cent more flora than Madagascar or Borneo.
Experts from the University of Zurich examined 700,000 plant specimens from the southwestern Pacific island as part of a study into its ecosystem diversity.
Two-thirds of the species of plants found on New Guinea by the research team are only found in that region – an area almost 20 times the size of Switzerland.
The island has lowlan…
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