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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…
…My journey as a Biodiversity Ambassador with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has been one of rediscovery—of my roots, my passions, and the ways in which plants tell stories…
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 In memoriam John Dickie (1941-2024) These reflections on the life of John…
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…
42. Corylus jacquemontii Decaisne CORYLACEAE Jacquemont’s hazel This tree was named for the French botanist and writer Victor Jacquemont, who travelled in the Himalaya in 1830. The tree is restricted…
…Residency at Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary A series of nine video works resulted from my artist residency in northern Kerala at the remote Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, set in the biodiverse, moist,…
…(see example above) featuring individual tree portraits, woodland scenes and life-sized illustrations of leaves, fruits and flowers will be presented at botanic gardens in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. Each…
70. Betula utilis D. Don var. jacquemontii (Spach) Winkler BETULACEAE Himalayan silver birch, Jacquemont’s birch; Hindi: bhojpattra, भोजपत्र Herbarium label written on a strip of birch bark, 1864, from the…
54. Fraxinus xanthoxyloides (G. Don) A. De Candolle OLEACEAE Crab ash, Afghan ash Photograph of Fraxinus xanthoxyloides in the wild, Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh This specimen was grown from seed…