By Kenneth MacdonaldBBC Scotland
Science Correspondent
16 August 2017
Scientists have discovered a
brand new flower in Shetland.
It is a beauty.
A delicate golden bell of a
flower, its throat flecked with tiny, blood-red spots - colours echoing the
Lion Rampant.
It is a discreet beauty, though.
Each flower is only slightly larger than a 50p piece.
Discreet and unique, because this
is a new flower of Scotland. Or, more precisely, Shetland.
The flower was discovered by a
team from Stirling's department of biological and environmental sciences led by
post-doctoral researcher Dr Violeta Simon-Porcar, working with associate
professor Dr Mario Vallejo-Marin at Stirling and Dr James Higgins at Leicester
University.
It is being referred to as
"Shetland's monkeyflower", because it is larger and its flowers are
more open than previous monkeyflowers.
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