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…resolution images, collaborating with staff in digitisation departments at New York Botanical Garden, WTU Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In January 2019…
One of the difficulties with studying the wild ancestors of domesticated food plants is knowing if plants are truely wild? Celery trials growing well at the Botanics with wild plants…
To mark the centenary of the First World War, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has created a poppy meadow at our Edinburgh garden. The meadow, located on the Garden’s Glasshouse…
Named after one of the most visionary leaders in the history of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the John Hope Gateway is one of the best visitor welcome buildings of…
…on the 25th April 1915. Some of what these men went through there has been outlined a few times already in previous Botanics Stories dedicated to the memory of Fallow’s…
…Bulley of Bees Nursery and founder of Ness Botanic Gardens near Liverpool. In 1905 he concentrated his search in the valleys near the Mekong river, and all seemed to be…
I’ve recently been working alongside Clare and Bruce, the horticulturalists who maintain the Botanics Orchid collection, to stock-take, curate and verify the collection. As part of that process I’ve been…
…Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1888 and 1922 Papaver rhoeas in J.H. Kniphof’s ‘Botanica in Originali seu Herbarium Vivum’, V: Halae Magdeburgicae (1762) The guns cease their…
…of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It was wonderful to see visitors both local and from around the world interacting and enjoying the plant experience. The Green Wall consisted of…
…but not formally described until 1878 by Sulpiz Kurz, curator of the herbarium of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. The Lepchas, the indigenous people of Sikkim, knew the plant as ‘tiang-moo-foo-goom’,…
…a corruption of auricula so not the most exciting reason for a common name. Bear’s Ears, the translation of the old botanical latin name Auricula ursi, or garden auriculas as…
…young tree of Pterospermum diversifolium cultivated in Singapore Botanic Garden Ganesan, from Singapore Botanic Garden, first came to RBGE as an MSc student and undertook a taxonomic study of the…
…an artistic organisation within a scientific research institution and Botanic Garden. Screenings will be accompanied by an expanded discussion between artists, curators and members of the scientific community touching on…
Red powder puff (Calliandra haematocephala) Family: Leguminosae Description: This is an evergreen shrub or small tree of 4 to 5 metres, which will grow as wide as it is high….
…the largely tropical ginger family. It was named by James Edward Smith after William Roscoe. Roscoe was a Liverpool banker, one of the founders of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, an…
38. Platanus orientalis L. PLATANACEAE Eastern plane, chinar This species has commonly been considered to be one of the parents of the more widely planted London plane (Platanus × hispanica),…
…Botanic Garden is well known. The plant is believed to have originated on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily as a hybrid between Senecio aethnensis and S. chrysanthemifolius and…
…considered Liverpool his home city. Shortly after completing his PhD, and marrying Pamela “Pam” Allsop, in 1960, Jim accepted the position of Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh….
…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…
…of two floristic regions, the Eastern Asiatic region to the north in China, and the Malesian region to the south. These regions have influenced Thailand’s flora and botanically make it…