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Unlocking the power of poo

A short video by Dr Linda Neaves about the challenges of finding giant panda poo in the mountains of China, and how poo samples can unlock the mystery of the

Fern Book Presents from Christmas Past – 1

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…

Project Soothe is Three

the exhibition is over Project Soothe is going from strength to strength on-line. You can take part in the research by visiting their website. All Project Soothe Stories What soothes…

The Big Botanics BioBlitz and the 1000th Species

…Big Botanics BioBlitz such a success. We would really like to do more events of this type in the future so please follow our Botanics Stories, Twitter and Instagram feeds….

Tony Schilling, horticulturist, receives recognition from the Government of Nepal – Updated

The following post was first published in July 2019. It has been updated on receipt of the sad news of Tony Schilling’s death on 23 November 2022. Dr Mark Watson…

The Lost Words Recovered

…Yet surely they need this vocabulary to understand and enjoy our heritage of poetry, stories and songs, stretching back through the generations? The Lost Words project is the antidote to…

June 2018 Garden Wildlife Report

…a separate post (https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/29014) about the BioBlitz. Twenty-nine other new Garden records were added during June (including a few from May that had not been identified): 4 moths, 1 dragonfly,…

Pride Tree

…– we would love to see our Pride Tree covered in your stories, hopes, aspirations and experiences. Please take photos while you’re at the tree and tag them on social…

Volunteering at the Botanics – bryophytes in our living landscape

…– bryophytes in our living landscape http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24333 Campylopus introflexus, an invasive alien on the glasshouse roof http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24359 The trials and tribulations of a moss in the lab: DNA extraction http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24399…

Notes on the complex thalloid liverwort genus Plagiochasma

…pull together some of the published information about the species, thinking about public interpretation. This Botanics Stories post, therefore, does not contain any new information about the plants, but is…

The liverwort genus Haplomitrium

Life gets littered with untold stories; here’s one that did get told, briefly, and then got forgotten. It was told at the Botany meeting in Austin in August 2005. That…

Interleaving in the RBGE Collections, Part 1: The Flora of Forfarshire

…book, even more surprises await… Throughout the text, one of the former owners (likely Hutcheson, based on dates) has pasted in various stories from local newspapers that he found of…

New Plant Identification App for Nepal

…and stories to give us a glimpse of the cultural importance of each species. Second, the botanical experts from all over the world who have volunteered their knowledge to help…

Mysteries inside the RBGE Illustrations Collection

…work has been lying in the archives until the day that I rediscovered and recognized it. Pelargonium cotyledonis Inside the RBGE Library and Archive collections there are numerous stories like…

On Monocarpus

…Monocarpus – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17112 Finding Monocarpus, in the Herbarium – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17146 Finding Monocarpus, in the field – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17272 Lost before found: Was there more than one species in Monocarpus? – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17904…

Finding Monocarpus, in the herbarium

…Monocarpus – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17112 Finding Monocarpus, in the Herbarium – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17146 Finding Monocarpus, in the field – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17272 Lost before found: Was there more than one species in Monocarpus? – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17904…

Finding Monocarpus, in the field

…Monocarpus – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17112 Finding Monocarpus, in the Herbarium – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17146 Finding Monocarpus, in the field – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17272 Lost before found: Was there more than one species in Monocarpus? – http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17904…

False Habitats and the Twisted Threads of Fate

…are used again and again. In this sense buildings and products tell their own stories; but, more interestingly, they are also like stories, handed down from generation to generation, from

What’s the story when there’s no variation?

…J. Milne, D. Schill, R.D. Seppelt, J.C. Villarreal. 2015. On Monocarpus (Monocarpaceae, Marchantiopsida), an isolated salt-pan complex thalloid liverwort. Australian Systematic Botany 28: 137-144.     https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17112 https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17146 https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17272 https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17904…

Building on building mosses, a return to Schistidium in the built environment

…to Schistidium in the built environment http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24310 Volunteering at the Botanics – bryophytes in our living landscape http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24333 Campylopus introflexus, an invasive alien on the glasshouse roof http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24359 The trials…