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…him via Italy, so the link with India is probably very indirect. The Dutch were among the pioneers of Indian botanical exploration and plants were sent back to the botanic…
…Cave was director of the Lloyd Botanic Garden in Darjeeling, from where he made many excursions to Sikkim, collecting numerous interesting plants many of which are preserved in the herbarium…
…a society aimed at advancing botanical science. The Botanical Society of Edinburgh promoted several objectives: to facilitate the exchange of botanical knowledge through meetings and the publication of transactions; to…
…trained at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and is best known for his efforts to introduce tea plants to India from China. Photograph of a Cryptomeria japonica cone, RBGE herbarium…
…Wallich in memory of Sir James Edward Smith, the ‘late immortal President of the Linnean Society’. It was introduced to cultivation by George Govan, Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanic Garden, who…
…(41) Horticulture (1,186) Edinburgh Botanics (995) The World of Palms Glasshouse Trail (17) Benmore Botanic Garden (26) Conifer Trail (15) Dawyck Botanic Garden (7) Logan Botanic Garden (22) Garden Wildlife…
…the ten things I’m looking forward to in 2016 – see separate post). My 2015 Highlights 1.Bees Spring at the Royal Botanic Garden was all about bees, trying to raise…
Objects from the Temperate Palm House, an exhibition using remnants of historic palm trees once grown in the Botanic Garden’s Victorian palm houses will open at Bargain Spot project space…
…a colleague from the Bogor Botanic Garden, Prima Hutabarat, we set off early to the village of Cipetir (Tjipetir is the old Dutch spelling). Three hours later we started to…
Helleborus orientalis (20091439A) Two different collections of Helleborus orientalis can be seen in the woodland garden. Both collected from Georgia. The smaller, with petals shaded pink and red was growing…
…Early Industrial Landscape, 2016 (detail) and The Birth of the Skyscraper from Botanical Architecture, 2015), Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London. 2…
…of years. But, while the data in these collections are nearly always open (e.g., the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarium has shared specimens with any who so request since at least…
…as an exhibition hall for its flower shows, to be staged in the heart of the Society’s garden. From 1864 until 1964, it housed the Herbarium, the Royal Botanic Garden…
…was Wallich who sent roots from the Calcutta Botanic Garden to William Roscoe in Liverpool, which first flowered in 1829. Wallich suggested naming the plant after the Honourable Edward Gardner,…
…economic botanical material were 36 tons of wood samples (largely subsequently destroyed), and from the library some 3359 botanical drawings. Of the drawings 1791 were grouped under the cobbled-together…
22. Nelumbo nucifera Gaertner NELUMBONACEAE Sacred lotus, Egyptian Bean; Hindi: kamal, कमल This aquatic plant is important in Buddhist, Jain and Hindu iconography. The beautiful flower (which can be white…
The Scottish Rare Plant Programme is a collaborative project between the Science and Horticulture divisions here at RBGE. Our aim is to identify the ways that we as a botanic…
…also often quite difficult to access because of their steep inhospitable terrain so they are often poorly explored botanically. Virtually no botanical collections have been made in the area we…
…that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh had been running a project for almost twenty years to save endangered native alpine plants. On further investigation, I discovered that one of these plants was…
Tucked away behind the glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a terrace that contains an exceptional collection of Chilean plants collected by RBGE staff and Chilean colleagues over…