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Library display celebrates digitisation landmark
by: Virginia, Library, Art and Archives blog09 Nov 2012
To mark the completion of the latest phase of the Directors' Correspondence Digitisation Project, a display has been prepared in Kew's Library Reading Room to showcase the collection. The display includes 19th and 20th century letters from botanists, travellers and directors of botanic gardens across Asia, as well as photos, illustrations and plant products they sent to Kew with their letters.
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Ever had an ice cream bean for dessert?
by: Wolfgang Stuppy, Millennium Seed Bank blog31 Aug 2012
This month the Millennium Seed Bank's Seed Morphologist, Wolfgang Stuppy, has us salivating over the remarkable fruits of the ice cream bean (Inga edulis).
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Pretty little liars
by: Wolfgang Stuppy, Millennium Seed Bank blog18 Jun 2012
In his fourth 'Seed of the Month' series, Wolfgang Stuppy exposes some fraudsters of the plant kingdom including the pretty but poisonous seeds of Abrus precatorius.
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Arisaema jacquemontii
The subtly attractive Jacquemont’s cobra lily is native to the Himalaya, southern India, and the Khasi Hills region in north-east India, and can be cultivated in shady areas of temperate gardens.
Allamanda cathartica
The golden trumpet vine has clusters of particularly striking golden-yellow flowers, which contrast with the shiny dark green leaves to make a lush plant for the conservatory.
Aristolochia grandiflora
Pelican flower produces enormous trumpet-shaped flowers, which smell of rotting meat and attract flies and wasps as its pollinators.
Aesculus indica
A relative of the common horse chestnut, the Indian horse chestnut from the Himalaya is a spectacular early summer flowering tree, which produces smaller seeds than the common horse chestnut, making it less useful for the 'conker' player.
The 'tanghin ordeal'
by: Charlotte Rowley, Library, Art and Archives blog20 Oct 2010
Read about the toxic plant used in poison ordeals in Madagascar as described by the botanist Charles Telfair in 1829.
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Amanita muscaria
One of the most iconic and distinctive of British fungi, fly agaric, with its red cap and white spots, is renowned for its toxicity and hallucinogenic properties.
Allium sphaerocephalon
A threatened species in the UK, the round-headed leek belongs to the same genus as the familiar culinary plants onions, leeks, garlic and chives.
