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Plant Hunting in the Tropics – preparations for fieldwork in Indonesia

…this, the two institutions are committed to research and conserve plant diversity in Indonesia and to instigate research projects, training and fieldwork to this end. Indonesia (© https://goo.gl/images/PEzYwX) The project…

Gesneriaceae Research in Indonesia – Celebrating our science and horticulture throughout March for International Women’ s Day

…and herbarium specimens, especially from under-collected parts of the world. Indonesia is one such place; one of the most biodiverse countries in the world with one of the poorest known…

First report from Indonesia

…from RBGE (three scientists and two horticulturists) have set out on an expedition to Indonesia; Phase 1 of a project which aims to discover the biodiversity and promote the conservation…

From Indonesia to Edinburgh – An orchids story

In a cloud forest on the Indonesian island of Seram an orchid was collected during an expedition led by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1986. The living specimen made…

Crinum asiaticum

27. Crinum asiaticum L. AMARYLLIDACEAE Hindi: Nagadamani, नागदामिनी This large, bulbous herb is widely cultivated in the tropics, and as a hothouse plant in temperate regions. It is native to…

Towards 3 million: Schlegeliaceae, Martyniaceae, Byblidaceae & Stemonuraceae

…into Australasia. Stemonurus and Gomphandra have the largest distribution covering most of SE Asia into Indonesia.  Medusanthera and Cantleya are found on several islands in Indonesia. The other genera are…

Destination Borneo: N 1̊ 12’ 33”, E 117 ̊ 18’ 22”

…of the second p hase of a project between the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to research and conserve the plant diversity of Indonesia

Update: North Sulawesi Fieldwork, continued…

…the Bolaang Mongondow and East Bolaang Mongondow regencies of North Sulawesi (Indonesia). The nature reserve, named after one of the active volcanoes within, comprises an area of approximately 8,600 hectares….

Update: North Sulawesi Fieldwork

River crossing in Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park One week into the North Sulawesi (Indonesia) expedition, the team has successfully completed collecting at the first locality, Bogani Nani Wartabone National…

RBGE to Host International Scientific Conference

…the Malesian region, a region spanning 7 countries (Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam). This region has one of the highest levels of plant…

Scent of seduction

…have been found inside titan arum in its native home of Sumatra in Indonesia. This really is a quite remarkable result and could be the first time that carrion beetles…

Montane Tropics House

https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/G900P.mp3 Audio by David Mitchell from 2005 Holding collections from the mountain regions of South-East Asia (Borneo to Indonesia and the island of New Guinea) this house showcases one of…

Towards 3 million: Bignoniaceae

…Tabebuia with 100 species, which only comes in third. Large flowers of Tabebuia ochracea (Cham.) Melch. (E01365277) The large seed pod of Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. collected from Indonesia (E00064006)…

Tjipetir – the next chapter…

…the Tjipetir plantation (modern spelling Cipetir) in Indonesia recently washing up on the shores around Britain. The current Think Plastic exhibition is helping write the next chapter in the story…

The first ever revision of the tropical tree genus Pterospermum just published!

…of the species from the Malesian region (the biodiverse area composed of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore and Timor-Leste). By reviewing this information knowledge gaps were identified…

10 years of collaboration, 200 years of collections and one more piece in the jigsaw of understanding plant life on Earth.

Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This is the result of ten years of collaboration between RBGE, the Research Centre for Biology, Indonesia and the Kebun Raya, Bogor. Authors Abdulrokhman Kartonegoro and…

Stories from the Biomes: Moving the Ericaceous Collection

…Gardens in November 2022, including Rhododendron multinervium from Indonesia and Dimorphanthera amplifolia var oblonga from Papua New Guinea. A small example of the tags each plant was given throughout the…

Redefining Aneura maxima and other Pellia-like Aneura

…have very wide distributions – none of these species names are based on plants from Europe: Aneura maxima was described (as Riccardia maxima Schiffn., 1898) from plants from Java, Indonesia….

Towards 3 million: Acanthaceae

…bracts around each flower and swollen nodes on the stems. The main regions of diversity are Central America to Brazil, Africa and Indonesia/Malaysia. They are usually found in forests, but…

Celebrating Rowan

…old bed frame found in Singapore in 2009, made of teak wood from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Art, poetry, animation, combine with ecology, social history oaf teak plantations and the politics of…