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…family. Photograph of Professor John Goodsir from the Botanical Society Club photo album, RBGE archives GB235 BSS/10/3. The Scottish botanist, Professor John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884) had a lifetime of botanical…
By Henry Noltie & Mark Watson Nathaniel Wallich was one of the most significant superintendents of the Calcutta Botanic Garden (now the AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah), a post…
In the past few years at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) we have experienced changing weather patterns that reflect how climate change will affect Scotland in the future. On…
Expedition to Northern Vietnam, October 2019 Tay Con Linh Participants (UK) Richard Baines: Expedition leader and Curator of Logan Botanic Garden Will Ritchie: Curator of The National Botanic Garden of…
…off at 4 pm on Friday 15 July with a team of over 20 expert recorders. The Benmore Botanic Garden event was the fourth in a series of Bioblitz events…
Portrait of gardener at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Thought to have been taken between 1910 and 1920. Photographer unknown. Some might argue that the greatest asset of the four gardens…
…was a ‘collage of coloured papers’. Specimen of Erophila verna in the Lightfoot Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The glorious botanical paper mosaics of Mary Delany (1700–1788), almost a thousand…
…etching of Molineria capitulata from Edwards’ Botanical Register t. 770 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19696585 Scientific Name:Curculigo capitulata Kuntze Family:Hypoxidaceae Genus:Curculigo Epithet:capitulata Plant:19696585A Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced Plant:19696585B Location:/Living…
…in our gardens and what a welcome treat after a long winter! The Gardens might be closed but Spring isn’t cancelled! The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and our three Regional…
…on tropical deforestation and is the father of the Bloomsbury Group biographer Lytton Strachey. Hand coloured lithograph of Bergenia stracheyi from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 5967 RBGE Living Collections…
…Joshi. 1995 – MSc. Botany, Tribhuwan University, Nepal 2002 – Botanical Illustration, Marie Selby Botanical Garden, USA. 2007 – Botanical Art Classes, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Exhibitions 2020 – Special…
8. Kaempferia rotunda L. ZINGIBERACEAE Hindi: bhumichampa, भूमी चम्पा This plant is a member of the ginger family from tropical South-East Asia. It is widely cultivated, and possibly also native,…
…Work of Robert Wight. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Noltie, H.J. (2011). John Hope (1725–1786). Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Noltie, H.J. (2016a). The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian botanical drawings…
…most extensive and important distribution of plant specimens ever made. It is particularly valued as the basis of botanical documentation in many parts of south and southeast Asia, especially Bangladesh,…
19. Carex baccans Nees CYPERACEAE Whereas most sedges have green or brown fruits, this species is unusual in having brightly coloured ones. Although the specific name ‘baccans’ means bearing ‘berries’,…
…in cultural heritage organisations hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. What: After the crowds disperse: crowdsourced data rediscovered and researched Where: Zoom hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh When: Tuesday…
Emile de Bruijn What a wonderful example of living botanical heritage. In my research into Chinese wallpaper imported into Britain I have found that wallpapers featuring paeonies, shown together with…
In collaboration with New York Botanic Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is producing the first botanical inventory of the highly diverse Northern Forest Complex in the Hkakaborazi-Hponganrazi landscape, Myanmar….
…wild plants. Harvesting of the trial plots in Edinburgh at the Botanics, Hermitage Vegetable Garden and Redhall Walled Garden will happen on the 10th of September. The Cruickshank Botanic Garden…
Dr Alexander Demidov (Director of the Main Botanic Garden) & Ms Svetlana Potapova (Academic Secretary of the Russian Council of Botanic Gardens) visited the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (E)…