Wakehurst has played a pivotal role in new conservation research on Nothofagus species, also known as southern beeches. These ...

With over 8.5 million items, we house the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world. They represent approximately 95% of vascular plant genera and 60% of known fungal ...

Maintaining a sustainable food supply in Madagascar for low-income families in the face of climate change. Madagascar’s population relies on wild yams for food to supplement small, seasonal and ...

Working with partners in Sub-Saharan Africa to conserve and characterize edible plant species with projected high resilience to future climates. Kew is working with in-country partners to develop ...

Thursday 20 March: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is proud to announce the 17 th recipient of the Kew International Medal is Dr Cécile Ndjebet, Cameroonian environmental activist and social forester.

Trees for bees is our citizen science project at Wakehurst. With your help, we can find out what trees pollinators like best and how to make our cities more pollinator-friendly. We often think of ...

The best time to see spring flowers at Kew is from mid-March to mid-April. Our gardens come alive with magnolias, cherry ...

Like other gourds, the snake gourd is a member of the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae) and has seeds similar to its cousin the water melon (Citrullus lanatus), although slightly more eccentric, sporting ...

The Directors' Correspondence Team reveals the artistic talents of an amateur orchid enthusiast in Burma at the end of the 19th century. The Directors' Correspondence team really enjoyed the recent ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

I have recently completed conservation of a large collection of botanical watercolours that were on a variety of supports including paper, vellum and a very fragile Chinese paper. The Ann Lee ...