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Hatiora cylindrica

Phylogenetics of epiphytic cacti

31 Jan 2012

DNA sequence analysis improves our understanding of the relationships between the epiphytic cacti.


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Palm house and waterlily house

Kew is recruiting a new Director

30 Jan 2012

After six years at Kew, the current Director (CEO and Chief Scientist), Professor Stephen D. Hopper FLS will be returning to Australia to take up a Chair in Biodiversity at The University of Western Australia.


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From the field - Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra

by: Marie Briggs, GIS team blog
27 Jan 2012

Kew's GIS and South East Asia team report from the forests of Sumatra. This is the first of their posts.

Studying yams in Madagascar

by: Tim Harris, Herbarium blog
27 Jan 2012

Kew and Feedback Madagascar are collaborating to look at the preferences for different species of edible yam in Madagascan rural communities. Find out about the latest research being undertaken as part of Kew's work in Madagascar. 

Seed collecting expedition

First call for MSBP-BGCI Fieldwork Fund

27 Jan 2012

The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP) and Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) are delighted to announce the first call for the MSBP-BGCI Fieldwork Fund.


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Investigating the spread of an invasive tree in the Turks and Caicos Islands

by: Alexandra Davey, UK Overseas Territories team blog
24 Jan 2012

Alexandra Davey, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, spent two months in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), investigating the spread of an invasive tree, Casuarina equisetifolia, which threatens coastal habitats there.

Travel the world and explore the past at Kew

by: Stephanie Rolt, Library, Art and Archives blog
19 Jan 2012

Discover the wealth of documents held at Kew’s Archives which can help us to create a picture of the lifestyles of travellers and explorers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Antarctic heroes

by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog
17 Jan 2012

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team reached the South Pole. But did you know that in the Joseph Hooker exhibition at Kew Gardens, you can see a letter from Scott to Sir Joseph Hooker?

Specimen of Cladrastis kentukea

12 new flavonoids discovered in Kew tree

12 Jan 2012

In the 2011 International Year of Forests, scientists report the discovery of 12 compounds new to science in a tree growing at Kew Gardens.


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The winter flowering Cyclamen coum

by: Richard Wilford, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog
09 Jan 2012

It is said that you can have a cyclamen in flower every month of the year and January belongs to the diminutive Cyclamen coum.

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Lathraea clandestina
purple toothwort

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