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Great Plant Hunt adds a new 'Thinking Walk'
09 May 2011
Kew's innovative education project The Great Plant Hunt has created a new Thinking Walk to support the International Year of Forests
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Museums of biodiversity in the Andes
09 May 2011
Scientists have discovered that the seasonally dry tropical forests in valleys of the Andes are millions of years old and in need of protection.
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Top professional tips to improve your macro shots
by: Philip Smith, International Garden Photographer blog09 May 2011
Macro photography is one of the most popular techniques in the world of flower and plant imagery. Keeping focused on your subject is the key to successful close-up photography.
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'Food from Kew' cafés transformed at Kew Gardens
09 May 2011
White Peaks and Victoria Gate cafés to be updated and relaunched.
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Highlights from Kew's 'Signs of Spring' Photo Challenge
06 May 2011
Throughout March and April 2011, we invited members of our 'Your Kew' and 'Natural Neighbourhood' Flickr groups to take part in our 'Signs of Spring' Photo Challenge. Philip Smith, Director of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition, picks his favourites.
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Chinese primrose rediscovered
04 May 2011
A botanist at one of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partners, the Kunming Institute of Botany, has rediscovered two populations of a primrose which was thought to be extinct in the wild.
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New species of Encholirium (Bromeliaceae) from Brazil
04 May 2011
Two new bromeliads discovered as part of the Toucan Cipó Project in Minas Gerais.
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Going tropical at Kew
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog04 May 2011
You can discover many different plants and habitats at Kew this summer including totally tropical waterlilies. Kew's work on these stunning and ancient flowers is revealed in the upcoming issue of Kew magazine.
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Rediscovery of Lychnophora humillima
03 May 2011
This curious daisy was previously found only once, over a hundred and fifty years ago.
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Kew contributes to the Brazilian Catalogue of Plants and Fungi
03 May 2011
Kew’s information resources on plant diversity have helped to compile a working list of all plants, algae and fungi in Brazil.
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Before St Helena olive became extinct, a sample of its genetic material (DNA) was collected for storage in Kew’s DNA bank, where it is still available for research.
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