Ultimately, conserving Madagascar’s forests isn’t just a matter of planting trees. It’s about inspiring people - especially ...

This two-day course is an extension of Kew’s renowned Botanical Sketchbook class, led by award-winning botanical artist Lucy T. Smith.

Scientists digitising Kew’s vast Fungarium collections highlight a treasure trove of preserved specimens More than 1 million fungi tucked away in Kew Gardens support vital scientific research Unique ...

Now open at Kew Gardens, Of the Oak, a new interactive video installation inspired by one of Kew’s most magnificent trees. Fusing of-the-moment scientific research alongside Marshmallow Laser Feast’s ...

As part of the Digitisation Project, our team has been working toward making our entire dried fungi collection available for global access. We’ve hit an exciting new milestone on our ...

Explore some unique historical botanical illustrations from Kew's Library and Illustrations collections in celebration of Worldwide Day of Botanical Art. 18 May marks the second Worldwide Day of ...

Passiflora or passion flower is a genus of more than 550 species which are members of the Passifloraceae family. The genus, which contains vines, lianas, shrubs and trees, is predominantly distributed ...

Like other gourds, the snake gourd is a member of the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae) and has seeds similar to its cousin the water melon (Citrullus lanatus), although slightly more eccentric, sporting ...

The Directors' Correspondence Team reveals the artistic talents of an amateur orchid enthusiast in Burma at the end of the 19th century. The Directors' Correspondence team really enjoyed the recent ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

The Director's Correspondence contains letters from several members of the Veitch family, famed for the Veitch & Sons Nurseries, a name synonymous with horticulture for much of the 18th century, when ...