SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has announced the Top 10 New Species for 2015. The annual list, established in 2008, calls attention to discoveries that are made even as species are going extinct faster than they are being identified.
This year the Tillandsia religiosa native to Mexico makes the list.
Despite long having been incorporated into religious Christmas displays in Mexico, Tillandsia religiosa is brand new to the scientific community. Sporting rose-colored spikes and flat green leaves, the flowering bromeliad grows up to 5 feet tall in the rocky northern areas of . . .
