Medicinal plants walking tour Discover the medicinal properties of various plants, including those used in modern medicine and throughout history on this walking tour.

All summer long, Kew members and their guests can visit the Gardens from 8am. Escape the crowds and be the first to enjoy the ...

I’m on a video call with Dr Lova Marline, a bryologist from Madagascar who has recently moved to the US to join Harvard ...

Ash dieback is a disease caused by a fungus called Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, an invasive species which has spread across Europe in the past 30 years. The fungus grows into the trees’ vascular systems ...

Kew's scientists and international partners share their 10 favourite species named as new to science in the past 12 months. It's been another busy year here at Kew, with our scientists and their ...

What is digital sequence information (DSI)? As the biodiversity COP16 unfolds in Colombia, a hot discussion is taking place on the fair use of ‘digital sequence information’ – but what is it really?

Arriving at Kew A few years after the trees were rediscovered in Australia, they were propagated and distributed to a few botanic gardens worldwide, including Kew and Wakehurst, to ensure the best ...

The makings of a meadow Today, a meadow is often used to describe any largely unmanaged natural area with a proliferation of grasses and flowers. More traditionally though, it refers to a field that ...

Nestled within the vaults of botanical gardens and museums around the world lie millions of herbarium specimens: an army of dried plants collected over hundreds of years and lying witness to serious ...

It’s been another excellent year! In 2023, 74 plants and 15 fungi were named by botanists and mycologists here at Kew and at our partner organisations around the globe. We've seen everything from ...

Four flowers that have become queer symbols Discover the stories behind why these four iconic plants were adopted as symbols of resilience and resistance by the LGBTQ+ community.

Scientists predict 3 in 4 of the planet’s undescribed plant species are already threatened with extinction, says new report From Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023 report published today ...