Discover Christmas plants with Kew
Find out more about the plants that are nowadays an essential part of our Christmas - mistletoe, holly, ivy, frankincense, myrrh, and of course the Christmas tree. Discover more about their history and how these festive traditions started.
Explore our species profiles - Christmas plants
Angraecum sesquipedale
Christmas star orchid
Boswellia sacra
frankincense
Camellia sasanqua
Christmas camellia
Castanea sativa
sweet chestnut
Commiphora guidottii
scented myrrh
Euphorbia pulcherrima
poinsettia
Hedera helix
common ivy
Ilex aquifolium
common holly
Ilex fargesii
Farges’s holly
Sequoiadendron giganteum
giant redwood
Viscum album
mistletoe
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