A fromAn international team of researchers has rehabilitated the status of 17 plant species deemed to be extinct in Europe for many decades through a taxonomic review and a verification of their rediscovery in the wild or the presence of specimens in ex situ collections.PhD, University of Roma TrePlant researchers may be often explorers, occasionally gardeners, but on special occasion they turn into detectives to face mysteries and solve cases that require their meticulousness and obsession with details.The case I am going to introduce you is not a mystery, but indeed it had to be solved....…A fromAn international team of researchers has rehabilitated the status of 17 plant species deemed to be extinct in Europe for many decades through a taxonomic review and a verification of their rediscovery in the wild or the presence of specimens in ex situ collections.PhD, University of Roma TrePlant researchers may be often explorers, occasionally gardeners, but on special occasion they turn into detectives to face mysteries and solve cases that require their meticulousness and obsession with details.The case I am going to introduce you is not a mystery, but indeed it had to be solved....WW…