The origin of tropical fire-maintained open canopy areas has often been assumed to be anthropogenic even though increasing evidence points to their common natural origin. Old growth grasslands can be ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...

You’ll visit Kew’s new Winter Garden, filled with cold loving plants, like hellebores ( Helleborus ), snowdrops ( Galanthus) and dogwoods ( Cornus ).

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives. Among the several million original items in Kew’s Archives is a ...

Prize freeze tickets open at 12pm on 2 January 2025. Early bird sales start on 31 March with discounted prices for a limited time only. Sign up to our Wakehurst newsletter to be the first to hear ...

Alan Paton, Assistant Keeper of Kew's Herbarium, describes some of the problems associated with plant names and the importance of the new release of The Plant List. How do I communicate about plants?

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversity and economic botany throughout his many expeditions, he remains an ...

As a Library Graduate Trainee, one of my many duties is to learn about the conservation of the collections. Delving into a lesson about the history of paper from our Senior Conservator, Jonathan ...

I am responsible for Kew’s Library, Art & Archives collections, comprising 300,000 books and pamphlets, 5,000 periodicals, 200,000 artworks, 7,000,000 archive documents, and a growing body of ...

Gwilym Lewis, Research Leader in Kew’s Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology department, explains how and why some plants are reclassified, and reveals the complications of renaming such an iconic ...

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Wakehurst's wild landscape radiates out from our stunning Grade I listed Elizabethan Mansion entrusted to us by the National Trust, which was once home to our globally significant seed bank. Our ...