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…of four to cover Edinburgh Botanics and all of the regional gardens. Apart from being great fun and engaging visitors with biological recording the Bioblitz events help garden managers to…
Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula Family:-Droseraceae Description The Venus flytrap is a most remarkable and very recognisable plant. Its leaves are modified in an extraordinary way in order to trap and…
The shepherds crook bend on the flower stalk of Cirsium purpuratum ensure the densely packed mass of flower parts are dry and attractive to bees who have no misgivings about…
21. Cupressus cashmeriana Carrière CUPRESSACEAE This tree, with very attractive, drooping, grey foliage appears to be a cultivated form of the native East Himalayan species Cupressus himalaica which can be…
Giant Water Lily Victoria amazonica Family: Nymphaeaceae Description The upper surface has a rather quilted appearance. The purplish-red under surface has a network of ribs, clad in abundant sharp spines,…
Following on from a Met Office decreed White Christmas in 2017, Edinburgh had a day of snow and then Storm Dylan blew through on the 31st. Fortuitously, the wind speed…
Help Make The Filo Pastry Tree at Logan Botanic Garden Woodland Trust Scotland’s Tree of the Year. Please help us to win this award by voting for the tree at…
…be possible to cultivate at Logan botanic gardens if sheltered in the glasshouse overwinter? I know it is not of conservation value but, it is an interesting fruit which I…
Photo: Mike Sutcliffe @britishlichens.co.uk Welcome to the world of the small! Let us take you on a tour of the lichens you can find here at the Royal Botanic Garden…
…we reopened between national lockdowns in October 2020. Angus Ross, Resilience Bench, 2016 Scottish ash and ebonised oak from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. First exhibited in After the Storm,…
…in 1802, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Hand coloured lithograph from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 6472 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19920222 Scientific Name:Persicaria affinis (D.Don)…
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…
…Arboretum, USA, Rakan Zahawi of Lyon Botanical Garden, Hawaii, and Paul Smith of Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Professor Hollingsworth spoke on behalf of the international attendees to commend the excellent…
…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…
…Edinburgh Botanic Garden Trust in May 1983, and passed by them to the RBGE Library. John Sadler (1837-1882) John began his working life as a gardener at Moncrieffe House, near…
65. Ephedra gerardiana Wallich ex Stapf EPHEDRACEAE Hindi: Somlata, सोमलता Photograph of Ephedra gerardiana in wild in Nepal A dwarf Himalayan shrub, which occurs at high altitudes of up to…
…the Seychelles two centuries later, in 1768, that its association with a terrestrial palm tree was finally recognised. Coco de Mer seeds incubating The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Specimen…
A new Postcards from the Biomes following the move of the last fern to leave the Ferns and Fossils Glasshouse at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh….
…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…
…his building up of the Calcutta Botanic Garden and his commissioning of botanical paintings. Although the second to reach India, Roxburgh was the third holder of the Naturalist’s post, succeeding…