A plant thought extinct for 58 years has been found again in Australia after a chance upload to a citizen science mobile app.

A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, ...

With no sightings for half a century and a landscape heavily impacted by cattle grazing, botanists feared the worst. The plant had only been spotted once before, in 1925, in Australia. After that ...

Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn’t been collected since 1967.

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work of scientists. How do we make them even better? It took such a constellation ...

An Australian flowering plant not seen for close to 60 years had been presumed extinct. Then, a photo taken in June 2025 was uploaded to a species identification page, and it caught the attention of ...

If you are looking for something different for the container garden, Joey Mulla Mulla (Ptilotus exltuatus ‘Joey’) might be up your alley. With an upright mounding habit, this plant is a nice filler ...

Plant species that was presumed to be extinct reappears after nearly six decades - Small Australian shrub with delicate pink and purple flowers was found thanks to a popular plant ID app ...

Scientists have confirmed the shocking rediscovery of Ptilotus senarius in Queensland after the rare shrub vanished without trace for almost six decades. The Ptilotus senarius hadn’t been seen in the ...