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…paper-making. Lithograph of Bambusa vulgaris from Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta 7: t. 4 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19696227 Scientific Name:Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex Wendl….
…in 1848 on the border of Eastern Nepal and Sikkim, and introduced to cultivation, via the Calcutta Botanic Garden, as a choice garden plant. It first flowered in a British…
…Chinese forms that were grown in India, which were first introduced in the 1850s by Robert Fortune (who had trained here at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh). Herbarium specimen collected…
Four years ago, we took an overnight trip to one of the four gardens of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Benmore, in Argyll (Sunday 2nd – Monday 3rd February 2014)….
…the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, RBGE’s peer-reviewed journal about the horticulture and related activities of botanic gardens and other heritage and conservation gardens and landscapes, has published its…
…herbarium at RBGE collected on 1 December 1814. Specimen of Magnolia coco collected in the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1814 by Francis Buchanan Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh It seems worth…
…Silvaea and Silvianthus are named after Francis de Silva, botanical collector See in stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/3472 Andre Trombeta Silvaea and Silvianthus are named after Francis de Silva, botanical collector See in stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/34728…
…Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, which was founded in 1786 as the Calcutta Botanic Garden. The tree began life around 1775 as a seedling in the crown of…
…Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme. They are on loan to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE) through a reciprocal arrangement with the National Galleries. The bronzes have been on display…
…the National Galleries of Scotland as part of the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme. They are on loan to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE) through a reciprocal arrangement…
…brings together new and commissioned works by contemporary artists alongside archival material and contemporary botanical drawings from the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Presented here, Oliver Osborne and Laura…
…Monday of September and I am about to return to Edinburgh after a placement at the Botanic Garden in Gothenburg, Sweden. I travelled here during the summer holidays to learn…
…made arrangements for the sale of botanical and zoological specimens to the Natural History Museum and obliged the Royal Horticultural Society and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, as well as…
…do. The Nursery holds a collection of new plants from our own expeditions and those of other botanic gardens; wild origin material from Index Seminum (the name for botanic garden…
…the foundation of botanical knowledge for this Himalayan country, and over 500 new species have been described using his collections. Buchanan-Hamilton took with him to Nepal a Bengali artist from…
…a living on the margins, a food of the poor. In 1709 Robert Sibbald, co-founder of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, recommended seaweed as a famine food. This was wise…
…(BO), Brunei Forestry Centre (BRUN), Naturalis, Netherlands (L), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), Singapore Botanic Gardens (SING), Forest Research Institute, Malaysia (KEP) and the South African National Biodiversity Institute (PRE)….
…Botanic Garden Edinburgh). The plant is now considered to be very widespread, also occurring in South and South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Photograph of this accession of Leea guineensis…
…was awarded to Professor Jin Chen, former Director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and founding chair of the Chinese Union of Botanic Gardens. RBGE Regius Keeper, Simon Milne, was…
Since September I have been working, on and off, on the fantastic collection of Indian botanical drawings at our sister organisation, Kew. This started out when asked to select some…