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SCOTLAND has the best public gardens in the UK with one that aims to save plant species threatened with extinction top of the pile, according to new consumer research. A public vote has placed Logan Botanic Garden, at Port Logan near Stranraer, one of the four Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh sites which is home to some of the world s rarest plants, as a clear number one in the study. And half of the best ten are in Scotland with Dawyck Botanic Garden at Stobo in the Scottish Borders, another of the RBGE sites and famous for some of Britain’s oldest and tallest trees coming joint second with an 89% score along with Coleton Fishacre House and Gardens in Devon.
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Botanic gardens in Scotland have helped to identify dozens of new species under lockdown.
A rhododendron from the mountains of Vietnam has become the 73rd species to be identified as new to science since March 2020.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and its international partners have continued to work behind closed doors.
It said the teams were continuing to identify more than one new plant every week during the Covid pandemic.
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image captionOne of the three new Zingiberaceae (gingers) new to science - Globba luteola
The latest species - rhododendron tephropeploides - was collected by an international team of scientists and horticulturists from Scotland, England, Vietnam, the USA and Canada in 2014.
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