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We are working on a way to embed factsheets about herbarium specimens and living collection accessions in Botanics Stories. These factsheets will draw their data from the Digital Repository and…
12. Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arnott LEGUMINOSAE Hindi: Kunali, कुणाली The genus name Dichrostachys, which was given by the Indian surgeon Robert Wight and the Scottish botanist George Walker-Arnott,…
…Sparrowhawk (Accipter nisus) Report 30/05/14 Initial report: ONE breeding pair of Sparrowhawks has been observed in the Oak Lawn at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Following heavy rain in…
…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…
…International Journal for Botanic Garden Horticulture has been publishing the outcomes of this work, and that of horticulturists and plant scientists worldwide, since its establishment in 2003. 2020 is the…
…Serena Lee from the Singapore Botanic Gardens and for my summer project. I’m working on a sub group of Boletus, the Xerocomoids. I am simply loving the use of the…
…pupil planting a wych elm sapling. Image: Chris Puddephatt. Genetic diversity is key to the future of elms, and the local project has linked up with the Royal Botanic Garden…
…cycads, Blasia has a symbiotic relationship with internalized colonies of photosynthetic blue-green algae Nostoc. Blasia with flasks, photographed by David Long The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has a long…
30. Reinwardtia indica Dumortier LINACEAE Hindi: basanti, बसंती Hand coloured etching of Reinwardtia indica from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 1100 A member of the flax family which is unusual in…
…hot houses of John Hope’s botanic garden on Leith Walk in the middle of the 18th century although we do not know how living coffee plants first arrived here. The…
…the botanical drawings made on the African expedition by the Bolognese artist Luigi Balugani; and, last but not least, the fact that in the 1770s some of his Abyssinian plants…
…published on 20 November 2017 in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 69(2): 189–199. This story is an example of a sterile plant collected in the wild that flowered in a botanical garden…
Walter H. Morland in his uniform with bayonet, knapsack and bullet pouches. Walter Henry Morland joined the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) on the 5th January 1910 as a rose…
…memory Private Thomas Adam, 2nd Scots Guards, a gardener [labourer] of the staff of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who fell in action in Flanders on 16th May 1915.” (Notes…
…House and the botanical research staff working within the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Oh strange beautiful grass of green With your majestic silken scenes Your mysterious mountains I wish to…
26. Calamus flagellum Griffith PALMAE This is one of the native Indian species of rattan (climbing palms), occurring in subtropical parts of the East Himalaya, North-East India and Bangladesh, at…
Drew McNaughton The second post of the Botanics Sparrowhawks blog – Sparrowhawks and Trees: http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/15644 Drew McNaughton The third post of the Botanics Sparrowhawks blog – Welcome to the World:…
Pinus royleana. NHM Saharupur Collection 190. Natural History Museum, London. At the Natural History Museum I’ve recently catalogued a collection of 314 botanical watercolours made at the Saharunpur Botanic Garden…
49. Dryopteris wallichiana (Sprengel) Hylander DRYOPTERIDACEAE A fern, very similar to the native British male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas), first described from Nepal, where this specimen was collected. It has a…
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…