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…eastwards to Bhutan, where it can reach a height of 40 metres. Its name commemorates the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1817…
Rhododendron mogeanum Argent. CASK 63 Accession Number:20110220*A Photo: Lynsey Wilson. Rhododendron mogeanum has flowered in the Vireya research collection at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for what we think is the…
Now two full years have passed since our Nature Play: Nature Conservation project to explore the idea of informal, child-led play within an area of native vegetation in the Botanic…
Installation shot of Patchwork Meadow exhibition, Gateway Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Wild plants are not only part of our landscape, they are integral to our culture and history. Plantlife’s…
The International Conifer Conservation Programme was established at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1991. Since then it has worked to conserve threatened conifers across the globe through a world-leading…
…to the Botanics? The Edinburgh potato first came to the world’s attention at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh sometime after 1850 and was named after the Garden in 1911 by…
The 21st March 2018 marks the centenary of the death of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) Helper James Christopher Adam. He was the older brother of RBGE’s photographer Robert Moyes…
…for carbon emissions, but without engagement across the globe, this is just a drop in the (rising) oceans. RBGE’s Regius Keeper, Simon Milne, has said “As a world-leading botanic garden…
…Glasgow Botanic Garden. It was rooted from a side shoot of a plant that may have been collected from the wild over 200 years ago! Rooting side shoots is a…
5. Alpinia zerumbet (Persoon) B.L. Burtt & R.M. Smith ZINGIBERACEAE Shell ginger It is not certain where this plant was originally native, but somewhere in tropical South or South-East Asia….
Next month the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh will host the 10th International Flora Malesiana Symposium (11-15th July). This will bring together Taxonomists, Horticulturists and Conservationist to discuss the flora of…
4. Stephania glandulifera Miers MENISPERMACEAE An extensive climber, which grows from a large tuberous root; it is ‘dioecious’ (having male and female flowers borne on separate plants). This species is…
Mnium hornum – Swan’s neck thyme moss – was collected for the Darwin Tree of Life project by Dr David Bell on the 18th August 2020, in the Royal Botanic…
As 2018 nears its end, here are a couple of blogposts telling the stories behind two fern books from the shelves of the Royal Botanic Garden Library. Both books were…
…Botanic Garden, exhibiting the best in both contemporary and botanical art in exhibitions throughout the year. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Buildings-Inverleith-House.mp3 Stories from the Biomes: A Change in the Weather Every day for…
23. Oryza sativa L. GRAMINEAE Rice; Hindi: dhan, धान, chaval, चावल; Bengali: chal The grain of this cereal grass is the major carbohydrate source throughout tropical Asia. Cultivated for at…
56. Primula denticulata Smith PRIMULACEAE Drumstick primula, purple Nepal cowslip, Kirrie dumpling This spring-flowering plant is native to the Sino-Himalayan region (from Afghanistan to South-West China). In India it occurs…
…Bees which put much new material into cultivation through private gardens in Britain. His garden on the Wirral was gifted to Liverpool University becoming known as Ness Botanic Garden. Cooper…
CHERISHED PLAN: The Story of Puck’s Hut at Benmore – Precis by Mike Thornley (Younger Benmore Trust)
…will be familiar to visitors, but probably few realise that, if buildings spoke, this modest structure would tell how the garden became an integral part of the Royal Botanic Garden…
…(72ft), the tallest traditional glasshouse in Britain. Reading the description of the building in the July 1858 edition of the Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, Professor Balfour wrote “that…