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Keep up to date with specialist science news from Kew. Find out more about the latest research and projects that scientists and conservationists at Kew are involved in.
Welcome to Kew's UK Overseas Territories programme blog
by: Pat Griggs, UK Overseas Territories team blog14 Oct 2010
Find out about the plants of the UK Overseas Territories and how Kew's UKOTs programme is helping to understand and conserve them.
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Funding to promote use of plants in Africa for pest control
01 Oct 2010
Kew scientists are involved in two recently funded projects that will optimise the use of plants as natural pesticides in Africa.
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Merger creates largest Fungarium in the world at Kew
30 Sep 2010
Two of the most extensive collections of dried fungus specimens, those at Kew and CABI (IMI), have been combined to create a fungarium at Kew holding around 1.25 million specimens.
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Vascular Plant Classification in botanic gardens – an international approach
20 Sep 2010
In this item James Wearn provides an overview for botanists on the Vascular Plant Classification Committee (VPCC), of which he is the Secretary, and the recent agreement achieved for the rearrangement of plant specimens in herbaria and other collections.
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Plant story - Polhillia obsoleta, an endangered shrub from South Africa
01 Jan 2010
With the common name Teesuikerkaroo bos, Polhillia obsoleta is an endangered shrub from the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
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Plant story - Roridula dentata, endemic to South Africa
01 Jan 2010
A tentacle leafed shrub, endemic to the Cape Province of South Africa.
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Plant story - conserving Ixia mostertii, an endangered plant species
01 Jan 2010
Ixia mostertii, found in the Breede River Valley in South Africa. The area is better known for its fine wines, fruits and beautiful mountains.
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Plant story - last wild population of Cylindrophyllum hallii saved from extinction
01 Jan 2010
A wild population of a long-lost species was discovered during a routine seed collecting trip in South Africa. This plant species had not been documented or collected since 1960.
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Plant story - Gladiolus aureus is on the verge of extinction
01 Jan 2010
A once wide spread plant species, this geophyte, known only to be found in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa is on the verge of extinction in the wild.
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Plant story - helping to conserve Moringa peregrina, a very useful tree
01 Jan 2009
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has conserved the endangered yusor tree (Moringa peregrina). It's found in remote mountains in Jordan's southern rift valley.
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Conserving Darwin's Letters
by: Eleanor Hasler, Library, Art and Archives blog 17 May 2013
Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives.
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How to Create a “Slab-Planted” Bonsai
by: Richard Kernick, Bonsai blog 13 May 2013
Richard, Kew’s bonsai specialist, and renowned bonsai expert Nobuyuki Kajiwara look into the process of creating a “slab-planted” Japanese white pine bonsai.
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Is our daily cup of coffee under threat?
08 Nov 2012
A new study from Kew suggests that Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years.
World's smallest waterlily brought back from the brink of extinction at Kew
18 May 2010
Kew’s top propagation ‘code-breaker’, horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, has cracked the enigma of growing a rare species of African waterlily. The 'thermal’ lily (Nymphaea thermarum) is believed to be the smallest waterlily in the world, with pads that can be as little as 1 cm in diameter.
