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Discovery of a plant previously unknown in an area is not what you might expect to happen within a botanic garden. Such places have large managed collections of introduced plants…
The International Conifer Conservation Programme was established at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1991. Since then it has worked to conserve threatened conifers across the globe through a world-leading…
…of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It was wonderful to see visitors both local and from around the world interacting and enjoying the plant experience. The Green Wall consisted of…
32. Polygonatum oppositifolium (Wallich) Royle CONVALLARIACEAE This subtropical relative of the native European Solomon’s seal was discovered by Nathaniel Wallich on his expedition to Nepal in 1820 to 1821. It…
To mark the centenary of the First World War, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has created a poppy meadow at our Edinburgh garden. The meadow, located on the Garden’s Glasshouse…
…a corruption of auricula so not the most exciting reason for a common name. Bear’s Ears, the translation of the old botanical latin name Auricula ursi, or garden auriculas as…
30. Reinwardtia indica Dumortier LINACEAE Hindi: basanti, बसंती Hand coloured etching of Reinwardtia indica from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 1100 A member of the flax family which is unusual in…
We are working on a way to embed factsheets about herbarium specimens and living collection accessions in Botanics Stories. These factsheets will draw their data from the Digital Repository and…
…memory Private Thomas Adam, 2nd Scots Guards, a gardener [labourer] of the staff of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who fell in action in Flanders on 16th May 1915.” (Notes…
…of two floristic regions, the Eastern Asiatic region to the north in China, and the Malesian region to the south. These regions have influenced Thailand’s flora and botanically make it…
…(72ft), the tallest traditional glasshouse in Britain. Reading the description of the building in the July 1858 edition of the Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, Professor Balfour wrote “that…
26. Calamus flagellum Griffith PALMAE This is one of the native Indian species of rattan (climbing palms), occurring in subtropical parts of the East Himalaya, North-East India and Bangladesh, at…
…Botanic Garden is well known. The plant is believed to have originated on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily as a hybrid between Senecio aethnensis and S. chrysanthemifolius and…
…get going are now doing well. F1 kale ‘Reflex’ doing well at Cruickshank Botanic Garden in Aberdeen. At Cruickshank Botanic Garden the brassica bed had to be netted at the…
As a life-long lover of insects, I jumped at the opportunity to volunteer at the Microsulpture exhibition at the Inverleith House Gallery at the Botanics . I had moved home…
23. Oryza sativa L. GRAMINEAE Rice; Hindi: dhan, धान, chaval, चावल; Bengali: chal The grain of this cereal grass is the major carbohydrate source throughout tropical Asia. Cultivated for at…
…a thick, brown crust. Every tree makes me feel happy, surprised and really small and we want to climb them. Strachur Primary School visit to Benmore Botanic Garden, 25 June…
Could you identify these pollinators? A brand new, free, online course launches in March 2018. ‘Keep Edinburgh Buzzing’ is a joint venture between the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE),…
One of the difficulties with studying the wild ancestors of domesticated food plants is knowing if plants are truely wild? Celery trials growing well at the Botanics with wild plants…
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Nursery have been growing on some very special seeds. In 2015 seeds were gifted to the City of Edinburgh as part of the international project…