Over 9,000 tree species on Earth remain undiscovered, says new international study - 100 scientists came together in an ambitious international effort and found out that the total number of tree species on Earth is 73,000.
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The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pooled data from around the world to show that there are roughly 73,000 types of trees on Earth, and some 9,200 are unaccounted for.
An ambitious, first-of-its-kind effort to estimate how many different kinds of trees exist on Earth suggests our planet is teeming with thousands of tree species that still haven t been discovered.