Kew scientists name new tree after Leonardo DiCaprio
The tree grows only in an African rainforest the actor and conservationist helped save from logging.
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The tree grows only in an African rainforest the actor and conservationist helped save from logging.
The tree's scientific name -- Uvariopsis dicaprio -- recognises the 47-year-old US actor's work to prevent logging in the endangered forest, where the only known specimen of the tree was found growing.
The tree grows only in an African rainforest the actor and conservationist helped save from logging.
A tropical tree called after actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio is the first new named plant species of 2022, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has said...
Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, said they wanted to honour the Hollywood actor for his help in petitioning against logging in the Ebo Forest in Cameroon last year.