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…you clearly haven’t read our paper 🙂 See Villarreal et al. 2015, New Phytologist. 209: 1734–46 or just go to http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17708 – anyway, the GenBank IDs are wrong for the…
Maura C Flannery Thanks for still sharing wonderful stories….
Roger Hyam Interesting but might there be hidden powers at work here? This recently leaked letter appears to offer another view of locally sourced food. http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24218 Max An amusing and…
University of Edinburgh Biotechnology student Kenneth McKinlay’s 4th year honours project, 2013. Supervisors: Dr David Long, Dr Laura Forrest David Long and Kenneth check out Lophocolea on a decaying log…
The Azalea collection is blooming. One of the best on the bank is Rhododendron luteum, reliable to flower, full of mid yellow blooms and the scent drifting through the lawn….
University of Edinburgh/RBGE student Lucy Reed, studying for the Masters degree in the Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants; thesis submitted August 2011. Supervisors: Dr David Long, Dr Michelle Hart and…
After RBGE’s initial involvement in land plant DNA barcode marker selection, culminating in a couple of 2009 papers that both utilized bryophyte barcoding data sets, we started a project to…
History of the cultivar Acer davidii ‘George Forrest’ 19230015*B This cultivar was described in 1959 by James Keenan, a former member of staff at the Botanics. He described this cultivated…
Elephant’s foot yam Family: Dioscoreaceae Description Elephant’s foot yam is a spectacular shrubby climber, which grows up to 1.5m high. It has a huge tuber reaching a diameter of…
One can only surmise that the description of Neoshirakia japonica in the Flora of China as “a treelet to 8 metres tall” refers to its diminished stature as a tree….
We’ve been kept up to date about the about the exciting Botanic Cottage project happening in the Demonstration Garden at the Botanics by Community Engagement Coordinator Sutherland Forsyth here. The…
Leratiomyces ceres is a common and easily recognised fungus which can be found throughout the Botanics from summer to late autumn. It grows mainly on woodchip mulches but can occasionally…
Peter Wilkie, intrepid Sapotaceae botanist, has been blowing the trumpet for plant taxonomy in an article entitled What’s in a name? A mass of analysis in The Scotsman news paper….
The mild weather has thrown up spikes of late season flowers. This herbaceous Delphinium beesianum has flowers sitting aside the dry brown seed pods of the summer flush. Multiple purple…
Camellia yunnanensis George Forrest was first sent to China in 1904 by the Regius Keeper Isaac Bayley Balfour. On this and six subsequent expeditions Forrest collected prolifically in NW Yunnan,…
Pauline Maclean, an RBGE Volunteer, writes: Forrest’s signature “… By now you must be aware of the fact that I am no writer. As a practical worker I am a…
Today as part of my survey on lichens as indicators of air quality we head out of the city to the foot of the Pentlands, well almost. Bush Estate. We…
As part of the Edinburgh Living Landscape (ELL), the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is exploring Lichens as Air Quality Indicators. This is a joint project between The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)…
Three Landsat 8 Scenes covering central Scotland I’ve been looking at producing a good quality Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset for central Scotland so that I can investigate correlation…
Pair of Conops quadrifasciatus, 17 August 2017. Photo Lucy Cooke. August 2017 was another mixed month in Edinburgh weather-wise, with plenty of rain but also some warm sun. Daytime temperatures…