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Purple cyclamen in flower

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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Purple cyclamen in flower

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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Neotropical plants image database screenshot

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 blog
25 Aug 2011

Kit Strange from Kew's Alpine team continues her travels in Armenia, this time discovering food from the mountains.

Freezing Ascension's rare ferns for the future

by: Ed Jones, UK Overseas Territories team blog
25 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.

Curse of the bamboo flower

by: Charlotte Rowley, Library, Art and Archives blog
22 Aug 2011

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true.

Michael Way in the wild flower meadow at Beech Farm

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 blog
15 Aug 2011

Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.

Seed conservation in the UK Overseas Territories

by: Tom Heller, UK Overseas Territories team blog
15 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.

Behind closed doors - Kew's conservation studio

by: Sarah Cox, Library, Art and Archives blog
10 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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Encephalartos tegulaneus

Encephalartos tegulaneus
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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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