To safeguard biodiversity, it’s essential to plant native species that are not only suited to current conditions but also ...

Collect your Glow Wild way-finding lantern to illuminate your path and become a colourful part of the trail.

A glorious week-long festival of summer concerts set within the stunning grounds of Kew Gardens. Proving to be a hit for all generations of music lovers, Kew The Music is the perfect evening out for ...

My taxonomic research focuses upon the Compositae (Asteraceae) family. I am interested in using this diverse family as a model group for considering ecological questions. My research has considered ...

As a seed curator for the Garfield Weston Global Tree Seed Bank Programme, my main task is to conduct seed germination tests on a range of plant species to understand and record the longevity and ...

My research broadly focuses on the origins of agriculture. My project aims to determine the palaeoclimatic and socio-cultural drivers of the transition from hunter-gathering to farming; to this end, ...

I am a research assistant working at the Millenium Seed Bank with a background in biology and genetics. I first came to Kew as an intern working on the CryoSync project studying the redox effects on ...

Biodiversity loss stands as one of the most pressing global challenges of our time. Species are disappearing at an alarming rate due to habitat destruction, climate change, invasive species, and other ...

Gerhard Prenner, researcher in plant morphology and anatomy, presents his recent studies on Abrus precatorius, a "deadly beauty" with fascinating flowers and inflorescences. The genus Abrus consists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...