• Question: How many plants are in the world?

    Asked by anon-224552 to Stuart, Scott, Lisa, Jack, Caragh, Alex on 18 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-224572.
    • Photo: Alex Batchelor

      Alex Batchelor answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I had to look this up but apparently there are nearly 400,000 different types of plants in the world!
      But scientists also find new types of plants all the time, 2,034 new types of plant were discovered in 2015 for example. So the total number is probably going to keep going up!

    • Photo: Caragh Whitehead

      Caragh Whitehead answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Thanks to Alex for the answer, I too would have had to look it up.

    • Photo: Lisa Kelly

      Lisa Kelly answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      I looked it up too, and do you know another interesting fact, 94% of the plants have flowers!

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