From ScienceDaily:
Fungi Expert Finds New Species In Aberdeen City Centre, Scotland
ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2008) — A leading fungi expert has accidentally stumbled upon a new species in Scotland – as he walked home from work.
Dr Andy Taylor, from Aberdeen’s Macaulay Institute, noticed the Xerocomus bubalinus growing near a lime tree in the city’s Albyn Place. This very rare fungus was only described for the first time in 1991 in the Netherlands, and has not previously been recorded before in Scotland.
Dr Taylor said: “I couldn’t quite believe it that I had found this species, which isn’t supposed to occur here in Scotland, and that it was living right here under our noses.”
As well as his city centre find, Dr Taylor, a professional mycologist, also recently discovered a species (Russula vinososordida) not found in the UK before, and another very rare species (Buchwaldoboletus lignicola) in the very grounds of the Macaulay Institute where he works.
“It is likely that there are many more undiscovered species right under our noses,” comments Dr Taylor, who whilst in Berkshire last year found and subsequently named a previously unknown fungal species, which is now considered so important by scientists that it is listed in the global top ten of all newly discovered species.
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