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 ...

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 ...

In an innovative paper published today in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Huarango Nature and paramotorists from Forest Air, highlight the exciting ...

Following a year of community conservation efforts in rural Ethiopia, we celebrate a huge success for the future of the false banana Ethiopia, a nation rich in biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, faces ...

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 ...

A new paper published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant ...

2) Underground trees of Angola – Baphia arenicola and Cochlospermum adjanyae So much life makes its home underground. Plants are no exception. During a National Geographic Expeditions survey of remote ...