What’s in a name? New version of The Plant List released
Alan Paton, Assistant Keeper of the Herbarium, explains the importance of the new release of The Plant List and some of the problems associated with plant names.
View ArticleSpring highlights for your group visit
The wonderful displays of spring colour are just beginning at Kew Gardens, and a new range of seasonal guided walks are running to enhance your group visit.
View ArticleSeed Collecting in the Northern Cape
Read the diary of Dr Paul Smith, Head of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, as he and colleagues undertake a seed collecting expedition in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
View ArticleBiodiversity and conservation of orchids: the importance of Kew’s fieldwork
Orchid researcher André Schuiteman describes the challenges facing orchids in the wild and what Kew is doing to help them.
View ArticleHow did plants evolve frost hardiness?
Rafaël Govaerts from Kew’s Herbarium describes the discovery of three key traits instrumental to the radiation of flowering plants into freezing environments. The results of the study were recently...
View ArticleThe living fossil
Library Graduate Trainee, Tavian Hunter, describes books, letters and paintings in the Kew collections about the remarkable species Welwitschia mirabilis, the 'living fossil'.
View ArticleOrchid finding in Cambodia
Nursery and Orchid Collection Manager, Christopher Ryan, reports on a recent orchid-finding trip to Cambodia.
View ArticleAncient Madagascan grass sheds light on crop evolution
Maria Vorontsova, Kew’s grass taxonomist, describes how an ancient grass lineage from Madagascar can provide valuable insights into today’s crop species.
View ArticleSeed collecting workshop in Vietnam
Elinor Breman, Species Collections Support Officer at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB), reports on a training workshop in Vietnam that brought partners from across Asia together to learn about...
View ArticleModelling the distributions of Falkland Island plants, part one -...
Rebecca Upson reveals how a Kew scientist deals with enormous amounts of information about Falkland Island plants to investigate the possible effects of climate change.
View ArticleNew guidebook for Brazilian biodiversity hotspot
Daniela Zappi and William Milliken describe Kew's latest contribution to our knowledge of the Brazilian flora.
View ArticleDiscovering the secrets of Japanese paper conservation
Paper conservator, Emma Le Cornu, describes a visit to Tokyo to learn the secrets of Japanese paper conservation.
View ArticleTackling illegal wildlife trade through a scientific and partnership approach
Madeleine Groves, the CITES Implementation Officer at Kew, describes how the application of science can help combat illegal wildlife trade.
View ArticleBringing orchids from Cambodia
In the third of this series about his orchid hunting trip to Cambodia, Nursery and Orchid Collection Manager, Christopher Ryan, describes bringing the orchids back to Kew.
View ArticleThe love potion
Library Graduate Trainee, Tavian Hunter, examines the mythological connections that have been made between plants and love.
View ArticleCarnivorous plants at Kew
Kew’s Tropical Nursery hosts a varied collection of different carnivorous plants from across the world, as Thomas Pickering explains.
View ArticleEvelyn Cheesman’s blue orchid
André Schuiteman, senior researcher in orchids at Kew, relates the discovery by the intrepid Evelyn Cheesman of one of the very few blue-flowered epiphytic orchids, Dendrobium azureum, which he...
View ArticlePollinator-driven speciation in painted petal irises
Félix Forest, Head of Molecular Systematics at Kew, describes the co-evolution of pollinators and painted petal irises in the Greater Cape of South Africa.
View ArticleWhat's in a collection? The Herbarium at Kew
William Milliken, Head of Kew's Tropical America team, examines the importance of Kew's collection of over seven million herbarium specimens, and how this resource is being used to tackle the global...
View ArticleThe Nagoya Protocol comes a step closer to fruition
China Williams, from Kew’s Conventions and Policy Section, reports on the latest international meeting to discuss a new legally binding regime governing access to genetic resources and the fair and...
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