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Rare plants from Montserrat on display at Kew Gardens

by: Pat Griggs, UK Overseas Territories team blog
04 Feb 2011
For the first time ever, visitors to Kew will be able to see two unique plants from the Caribbean island of Montserrat (normally kept safely behind the scenes) during the Volunteer Guides' hands-on sessions in this year’s Tropical Extravaganza.

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Sense-and-Respond vs Plan-and-Execute

by: Denise DeLuca, Business Inspired by Nature blog
01 Feb 2011
Learn how nature's emergent approach can be transferred to a business setting, leading to creativity, innovation and positive business outcomes.

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Rediscovering the comb fern in the Falkland Islands

by: Pat Griggs, UK Overseas Territories team blog
27 Jan 2011
Find out how Kew botanists were able to confirm the identity of the comb fern, a tiny plant believed to be extinct in the Falkland Islands until it was spotted growing on the island of West Falkland more than 180 years after its only previous sighting there.

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New year, new office, new challenges!

by: Helen Hartley, Library, Art and Archives blog
24 Jan 2011
Can you work it out? Kew's Directors' Correspondence Digitisation Team set a challenge to decipher some 19th century handwriting as they start the new year in their brand new offices.

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Botanical challenge: Identifying specimens in Kew's Herbarium

by: Gemma Bramley, Herbarium blog
18 Jan 2011
Find out how Kew botanists, specialising in the flora of southeast Asia, get together every Friday afternoon for the 'family sort' of specimens newly arrived to the Herbarium.

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Designer Marcus Barnett's Times Eureka Garden Design

Kew teams up with The Times for Chelsea 2011

15 Jan 2011

Kew is delighted to announce that it is working in partnership with The Times to create a garden showcasing the significance of plants to science and society, through an eye-catching and innovative design by Chelsea gold medallist Marcus Barnett.

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The naming of a mistletoe

by: Tim Harris, Herbarium blog
13 Jan 2011
Find out how collaboration between mistletoe experts and the Drylands Africa team in the Herbarium resulted in a new species of mistletoe being documented.

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Botanical surveys of the coastal forests of Mozambique

13 Jan 2011

Fieldwork in the coastal forests of northern Mozambique has so far led to the discovery of 20 new species and 50 species not previously recorded in the country.

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High Society - the culture and history of mind-altering drugs

by: Mark Nesbitt, Economic Botany blog
04 Jan 2011
Kew's Economic Botany Collection has been a major lender of psychoactive plants to the Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'High Society'.

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People examining plant specimens in Kew's Herbarium

Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden announce the completion of The Plant List

29 Dec 2010

This landmark international resource is a working list of all land plant species, fundamental to understanding and documenting plant diversity and effective conservation of plants. This accomplishment is crucial to plant conservation efforts worldwide.

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