Orchid seeds are spread by the wind, which is why they're so tiny. Varying when each seed germinates protects the population ...

Join Kew botanical horticulturist Vicki Thompson to discover where snowdrops originally come from, exactly who distributes ...

Technology like LiDAR isn’t just used for scientific research though: it’s also the magic behind some incredible art. Of the Oak uses LiDAR scans, along with data from photogrammetry and CT scans of ...

Follow these top tips from expert botanical artist Lucy T Smith to start capturing the beauty and detail of the natural world. Botanical art is a vital part of studying plants and fungi. It’s how ...

Today, we are excited to announce the official launch of our new, highly anticipated online Data Portal: a digital treasure trove that will house all 7.5 million of our prestigious herbarium and ...

Notably, the third district, Kozhikode, has been chosen to host orchids rescued from the brink of destruction. Working with Kozhikode District Tourism Promotion Council we identified the 200 acre ...

3) The 'black souled' Aphelandra from Colombia – Aphelandra almanegra Named after its distinct black heartwood, this new species of deciduous shrub is in the same genus as the widely cultivated zebra ...

What is access and benefit sharing? One of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is that any innovation from research based on something taken from the natural world ...

Did you know that there could be over 60,000 species of plant not yet known to science? That’s about ten times the number of known mammal species on Earth – and we don’t know what or where they ...

Dinosaur trees. Back in 1994, field officer David Noble was exploring the Blue Mountains of eastern Australia when he came across a small group of trees of a species that had never been seen before – ...

Since Kew Gardens was first established nearly two hundred years ago, trees have been a key part of the landscape. Around 11,000 of them call the Gardens home, ranging from young saplings to Kew’s Old ...

Case in point Example 1: Tied together - Climate changes, flowering times shift . Research by Calinger et al., gives us a perfect example of the kind of insights herbarium specimens can provide us in ...