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…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…
By Carole Papion My journey around Edinburgh Botanic Gardens started about four years ago, where in 2018 I enrolled in a practice-based PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art, to…
…Dr Hewan studied botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, establishing a link with the Garden that still exists today in our herbarium and archives. Letter from Dr Hewan dated…
We Will Remember Them Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Roll of Honour, 1914–1919 At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the appeal for H.M. Forces met with ready response from…
…As guardians of Scotland’s National Botanic Collection, they are doing an exceptional job under difficult and challenging circumstances. Even though the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is temporarily closed, our plants…
…on the family Acanthaceae. He had trained as a doctor at RBGE and was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1861 to 1869 when he had to retire through…
…the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where his closest friend was one of the foreman gardeners. And, curiously, sitting on a shelf in the Rare Books Room of the RBGE Library…
Will Hinchliffe climbing 19241022*A for fertile material One aspect of the Sibbald funded verification project I’m involved with at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is the identification of plants that are…
…believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Juergen Teller, ‘Cerith, Suffolk’, 2011 (Courtesy Studio Juergen Teller); Dan Colen, ‘Blowin in the wind’, 2013 (Courtesy of the artist, Gagosian…
…of the Saharunpur botanic garden in Uttar Pradesh. The epithet cornutus means ‘horned’ and refers to horn-shaped galls, caused by an insect, which frequently affect the fruits of the tree…
…after a drawing by Matilda Smith, from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Coelogyne-corymbosa.mp3 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19822051 Scientific Name:Coelogyne corymbosa Lindl. Family:Orchidaceae Genus:Coelogyne Epithet:corymbosa Collector:Grierson, Andrew J.C….
…Edinburgh Living Landscape (ELL), the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is exploring Lichens as Air Quality Indicators. This is a joint project between The Conservation… Latest Stories RBGE Botanic Cottage Garden…