In the earliest days of the Millennium Seed Bank, I was able to negotiate Access and Benefit-Sharing agreements in the USA ...

"Diwali is the Festival of Lights, a five-day period celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists. It is derived ...

A favourite item from the Balls collection which features in the exhibition is his photo album of an expedition to Persia in ...

The results are published in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the world’s most trusted source of information on ...

Join Kew curator-mycologists Issy Miles-Bunch and Rosie Woods in the Fungarium as they introduce you to some of their ...

Naturally Brilliant Colour exhibition comes to Kew Gardens. Monday 17 May to Sunday 26 September 2021, at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. “Pure Structural Colour is the most vivid ...

Plants and fungi are vital to the future of food, clean air and medicine. We're fighting against biodiversity loss to save life on Earth.

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives. Among the several million original items in Kew’s Archives is a ...

Come and create a beautifully festive Christmas wreath using foliage from our gardens at Kew. Get into the festive spirit and learn a new skill by creating a traditional Christmas wreath adorned with ...

Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with stories from Kew's Archives. The Archives team at Kew has been ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

A rampant illegal trade in Southern African succulent plants is resulting in species extinctions. Arid regions under threat include the Succulent Karoo, which supports more than 6,000 succulent ...