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Stunning autumn cyclamen are in flower at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst
30 Aug 2011
Autumn is a great time of year for cyclamens where beautiful displays of the Cyclamen hederifolium can be seen at both Kew Gardens and Wakehurst.
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Stunning autumn cyclamen are in flower at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst
26 Aug 2011
Autumn is a great time of year for cyclamens where beautiful displays of the Cyclamen hederifolium can be seen at both Kew Gardens and Wakehurst.
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Two new Internet resources for Latin American plants
26 Aug 2011
Kew launches plant image website and vegetation website for Latin America.
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Alpine travels in Armenia (part three)
by: Kit Strange, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog25 Aug 2011
Kit Strange from Kew's Alpine team continues her travels in Armenia, this time discovering food from the mountains.
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Freezing Ascension's rare ferns for the future
by: Ed Jones, UK Overseas Territories team blog25 Aug 2011
Ed Jones has just spent a year working with Kew's Conservation Biotechnology team investigating different methods of conserving several of the threatened ferns unique to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
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Curse of the bamboo flower
by: Charlotte Rowley, Library, Art and Archives blog22 Aug 2011
A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true.
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Sowing the seeds of UK biodiversity - Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank launches UK Native Seed Hub
17 Aug 2011
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew launches the UK Native Seed Hub at the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst – an initiative that draws on the Millennium Seed Bank’s extensive collection of UK native seeds, as well as its horticultural and scientific expertise to support the UK seed industry, conservation groups and other organisations working to restore native plants to the UK countryside.
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Conservators care for tapa cloth at Kew
by: Daniel Barter & Cristina Liria, Economic Botany blog15 Aug 2011
Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.
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Seed conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
by: Tom Heller, UK Overseas Territories team blog15 Aug 2011
Find out about Kew's seed collecting activities in the UK Overseas Territories. Through their seed banking work, Kew’s UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) team are helping to conserve plant life in many diverse and fragile habitats in these regions.
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Behind closed doors - Kew's conservation studio
by: Sarah Cox, Library, Art and Archives blog10 Aug 2011
In her farewell post, Sarah blogs about her final project at Kew, during which she gets a backstage pass to the conservation studio for a day!
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This giant Kenyan cycad is a living fossil of the plant world – Encephalartos tegulaneus is a member of an ancient group and impressive, but also rare and only found on remote hills.
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