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…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…
…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…
…of the world, detailed correspondence between sponsors of botanic ventures with their advice and their worries. Examples are: The 1850’s Oregon enterprise ending in the still unexplained disappearance of the…
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),…
…Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; also going are Dr. Patrick Kuss from the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich; Alan Elliott a PhD researcher at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and…
…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…
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…
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…
…in the Leith Walk Botanic Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s previous site, and transferred to Inverleith in the early 1820s. The bibby tree, as it is known locally, is…
…turned to the 2nd month of the project. Mandy Haggith will be in residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh throughout July. Her programme is posted on this blog (check…
…after having discussed it with knowledgable Botanics people I feel is very likely, that Wilfred Owen would have visited the botanic garden during his stay at Craiglockhart Hospital. Norman Gould…
…for conservation and sustainable use of Nepal’s natural resources. The Flora of Nepal botanical art exhibition is still running at RBGE and Nepal features prominently in this year’s Botanics Lights….
Botanical Society of Scotland together with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh invites you to a talk by Dr Richard Milne, University of Edinburgh on Thursday 30th November 2017 in the…
…they can only be addressed together. To highlight the role of nature in climate solutions, the Environment and Economy Leaders’ Group including the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, NatureScot and other…
…islands conditions become harder for growth. Conservation measures are in place in Socotra, but botanic gardens around the world are growing a few specimens of the Dragon’s Blood Tree to…
…that exist and producing a more finely tuned assessment of rarity for each taxon. * CNCFlora/JBRJ is the National Centre for Flora Conservation/Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden its role is…
…along to Edinburgh and see what else there is to be seen among the plantings and pavements at the Botanics. With your trail-guide, you can borrow a magnifying lens to…
…using HTTP URIs. The implementation of this mechanism at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E) is used as an example. Advantages of this approach include near universal support amongst web-connected…
There are very few bryophytes growing in the living collections of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. What I mean by this is that there are very few bryophytes that we…
…in cultivation. Due to the size of our vireya collection the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is at the forefront of both research and conservation of these beautiful plants. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Rhododendron-taxifolium-2.mp3…