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Palm biogeography
25 Sep 2012
Researchers are using statistical and phylogenetic methods to help understand the biogeography of palms.
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Ancient Trees - book of the month
21 Sep 2012
Kew's 'Book of the month' is Ancient Trees (second edition) by Edward Parker and Anna Lewington. Read on to discover more about this fantastic new book published by Batsford in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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On the murder of Dr Charles Budd Robinson
by: Charlotte Rowley, Library, Art and Archives blog20 Sep 2012
Read about the death of enthusiastic plant hunter Dr Charles Budd Robinson in Ambon, as told by the murder report in Kew's archives, and learn why miscommunication can be deadly.
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Highlights from Kew's 'Essence of Summer' photo challenge
20 Sep 2012
Throughout summer 2012, we invited members of our 'Your Kew' and 'Natural Neighbourhood' Flickr groups to take part in our 'Essence of summer' photo challenge. Once again we received many great photos, and Philip Smith, Director of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition was on hand to pick his favourites.
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Saving seeds - in four million years we'll laugh about it!
by: Wolfgang Stuppy, Millennium Seed Bank blog20 Sep 2012
Here comes a slightly different 'Seed of the Month' blog by the Millennium Seed Bank's Seed Morphologist, Wolfgang Stuppy, in which he explains why saving seeds is more than just a good idea!
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Every species counts
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog14 Sep 2012
Two new completed publications reveal just why every species matters to the health of our planet, and why we need to change our perception of their 'usefulness'.
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60 year project documenting plants of East Africa celebrated at Kew Gardens
13 Sep 2012
A significant milestone in East African conservation and botany will be celebrated at Kew today, to mark the completion of The Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA). This vast 60 year project involved documenting and furthering knowledge of the region’s 12,104 wild plant species, including many plants new to science.
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‘If you can paint one leaf you can paint the world’
by: Dr. Shirley Sherwood, Library, Art and Archives blog07 Sep 2012
In this latest post from the gallery, Dr Shirley Sherwood shares how she curated her current exhibition: Portraits of Leaves and Fungi, paintings from the Shirley Sherwood Collection.
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Ever had an ice cream bean for dessert?
by: Wolfgang Stuppy, Millennium Seed Bank blog31 Aug 2012
This month the Millennium Seed Bank's Seed Morphologist, Wolfgang Stuppy, has us salivating over the remarkable fruits of the ice cream bean (Inga edulis).
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Kew's Library celebrates the Olympics
by: Fiona Ainsworth, Library, Art and Archives blog29 Aug 2012
A special Olympic-themed display has just been completed in the Library Reading Room.
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Gagnebina commersoniana was named in honour of the 18th century Frenchman J.-P. Commerson, who described Madagascar as the ‘naturalist’s promised land’.
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