Travel through the coastal deserts of Peru’s Atacama and Sechura and, as well as some of the most exquisite landscapes, you ...

3.7 million specimens were digitised through our dedicated digitisation project, with an impressive 100,000 specimens imaged ...

James Wearn, leading a project called ‘Kew Gardens at War’, describes how one poppy helped to keep pain away during wartime while another poppy lets us remember and reflect on the pain and sorrow of ...

Like other gourds, the snake gourd is a member of the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae) and has seeds similar to its cousin the water melon (Citrullus lanatus), although slightly more eccentric, sporting ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

Directors' Correspondence digitiser, Kat Harrington looks at letters to Kew's first official Director, Sir William Jackson Hooker, sent from Brazil. The first is from Maria Graham (in later life, ...

Experience the best of wine, art and nature with an exclusive summer after hours walk, accompanied by our new Kew Series wine courtesy of Laithwaites. Beginning with a welcome glass of sparkling Blanc ...

The Seed Collection represents the greatest concentration of living seed and plant diversity on Earth. Situated in the Millennium Seed Bank, it’s a global resource for conservation and sustainable use ...

Passiflora or passion flower is a genus of more than 550 species which are members of the Passifloraceae family. The genus, which contains vines, lianas, shrubs and trees, is predominantly distributed ...

On Saturday 29 June 2024 between 3.30pm and 6.15pm, the Children's Garden will be closed for a quiet session. Based in a natural setting the size of 40 tennis courts, children can explore all the ...

Kew's Director of Science, Professor Kathy Willis, describes the BBC Radio 4 series Plants: From Roots to Riches. The series provides a unique examination of the major breakthroughs in botanical ...

In late April 2014, the number of specimen records included in Kew’s online Herbarium Catalogue exceeded the 700,000 mark. Half of these records are accompanied by high resolution digital images, all ...