After consultation with his colleague Robert Morley, he realises with amazement that, unlike the dinosaurs, the relatives of ...

The best time to see spring flowers at Kew is from mid-March to mid-April. Our gardens come alive with magnolias, cherry blossoms, tulips, bluebells and daffodils. Here’s how to plan your ...

Stealthy, tenacious, and deadly - mosquitoes are the ultimate hidden killers, infecting people with devastating diseases like ...

In a new study published today in leading journal Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global partners, combine results from two newly discovered ...

Kew’s women scientists, horticulturists, curators and educators are world-class, and it shows. We’ve rounded up our favourite stories from the women of Kew for a whistle-stop tour of the amazing work ...

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives. Among the several million original items in Kew’s Archives is a ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...

Passiflora or passion flower is a genus of more than 550 species which are members of the Passifloraceae family. The genus, which contains vines, lianas, shrubs and trees, is predominantly distributed ...

Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP) is the largest wild plant conservation programme in the world. Now in its 15th year, the MSBP covers 84 countries and more than 200 organisations. As ...