The Wakehurst Christmas lights will return in 2026, inspired by gifts of nature. It’s a reminder that the greatest treasures ...
Experience the wonder of Christmas at Kew 2025, London’s most enchanting festive light trail. Christmas at Kew 2025 invites you into a botanical world of light, music and magic. This year’s trail ...
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 ...
Learn more about the mysterious pomegranate; an important source of food and medicine for thousands of years and the fruit of ancient myths. The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is one of the oldest ...
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 ...
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 ...
We look at the complex story behind one of the most infamous plants, and the science leading us to better understand it For thousands of years, Indigenous communities of South America have used the ...
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 ...
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew today releases ‘Our manifesto for change 2021-2030’, a new strategy mapping out its mission and areas of focus for the next decade. The world leading plant science ...
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 ...
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 ...