Other common names: ياسمين شائع, ياسمين شامي, ياسمين صيفي (Arabic), jasmín pravý (Czech), jasmin officinal (French), Ίασμος ο φαρμακευτικός, Κοινό Γιασεμί (Greek), gelsomino commune (Italian ...

RBG Kew’s fifth State of the World’s report, published today, lays out the current condition of the world’s plants and fungi globally. Based on the work of 200 international researchers and covering ...

Nature has been the inspiration for many forms of art and literature throughout history. In fact, it inspired the very first photographically illustrated book. Cyanotype photography is a camera-less ...

From plants to poo, Kew Research Fellow Dr Si-Chong Chen reveals how seeds use animals as their free ride for dispersal… Plants can’t pick themselves up and move around, so they often need a little ...

From panda food to furniture, bamboo (Bambusoideae) is a resilient plant with many different uses. Bamboos are a group of woody plants in the grass family Poaceae. Although they're grasses, some ...

Nearly 2000 years ago, the city of Cyrene in Northern Africa (modern day Libya) had one plant to thank for its status as one of the richest cities in the land. It was known as silphium, and had almost ...

Feel like your living room could do with some plant love? Terraria are enclosed glass containers with a beautiful display of slow-growing plants. They are a great way to get a dose of nature indoors.

Two new ground-breaking publications from researchers across Kew Science and 50 global partners highlight Madagascar’s incredible biodiversity and the optimistic future ahead if we grasp opportunities ...

How did the double coconut, one of the natural world’s most celebrated and mysterious phenomena, evolve on a remote island? On the beautiful islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean grows a ...

With 1.5 billion hectares of cropland in the world today, farming is a pretty big deal. But as we produce more and more crops, we need to make sure we’re doing it in a more sustainable way. Some ...

A sensory garden is all about stimulating and engaging the five basic senses of sight, smell, sound, touch and taste. This type of garden not only allows you to connect to nature, but encourages you ...

In a new paper published today in Nature Plants, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the University of Greenwich, CIRAD (the French Agricultural Research Centre for International ...