Amateur Researcher Reginaldo Vasconcelos from London, clicked a picture of a plant in a jungle on a mountain top in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Later he posted the image on social networking site, for his friends.
When circulated, the image reached the experts at the Bavarian State Collection for Botany in Munich who identified the sundew plant as a new species and named it "drosera magnifica" (magnificent sundew), Telegraph reported.
It is the first plant that was discovered on Facebook. It is the largest sundew in the Americas, and the second-largest carnivorous plant in the AmericasBy Andreas Fleischmann from the Bavarian State Collection
Source: TOI
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