Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Step inside our tropical paradise
Kew’s Princess of Wales Conservatory has been transformed into a vibrant celebration of Brazil’s plant life and habitats.
More about the Orchids festival
During the festival, Kew experts will give fascinating talks about plant hunting, Brazil, orchids, and Kew’s work.
Kew Science blog
4 February 2016
Kew’s Orchid Festival, opening this week with a Brazilian theme, features a new short film following an expedition along the French Guiana-Brazil border. The film examines how modern techniques and equipment, coupled with old-fashioned exploration, can help fill voids in our knowledge of the Amazon flora.
![Image showing Some of Britain’s most rarely recorded fungi: [clockwise] Geastrum marginatum, Tulostoma niveum, Thyronectria roseovirens, Hypocreopsis lichenoides.](http://www.kew.org/files/styles/view_thumb/public/4%20combo%20A.jpg?itok=066GzfBO "Some of Britain’s most rarely recorded fungi: [clockwise] Geastrum marginatum, Tulostoma niveum, Thyronectria roseovirens, Hypocreopsis lichenoides. (Photos: A.M. Ainsworth [1], P.F. Cannon [2,3] R. McBeath [4])")
1 February 2016
Brian Douglas describes how the Lost and Found Fungi project at Kew aims to help develop British fungal conservation, by trying to find out which “lost” species are truly extinct and which species are simply under-recorded due to lack of survey work.
