Our Microscope Slide Collection holds around 150,000 specimens from a diverse range of plant taxa, particularly from seed-producing plants. The slides include leaf surfaces and sections, pollen, wood, ...

Our In Vitro Collection consists of plant specimens and fungi that have been cultured in artificial growing media. The collection includes 6,000 specimens, including orchids and mycorrhizal and ...

Plants and fungi are vital to the future of food, clean air and medicine. We're fighting against biodiversity loss to save life on Earth.

Forest bathing is inspired by the popular Japanese wellbeing practice of relaxing under the canopy of trees - known as shinrin-yoku. Our expert guides from the Forest Bathing Institute will help you ...

The Temperate House will be closed between 30 September and 4 October 2024 and partially closed between 7 to 18 October 2024 to install a new exhibition. It will be closed between 18 to 22 November ...

Like other gourds, the snake gourd is a member of the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae) and has seeds similar to its cousin the water melon (Citrullus lanatus), although slightly more eccentric, sporting ...

William Milliken, Head of Kew's Tropical America team, examines the importance of Kew's collection of over seven million herbarium specimens, and how this resource is being used to tackle the global ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

The Directors' Correspondence Team reveals the artistic talents of an amateur orchid enthusiast in Burma at the end of the 19th century. The Directors' Correspondence team really enjoyed the recent ...

Discover a brand-new, after dark Halloween trail full of hidden surprises. This spooky season, Kew Gardens will transform into a spooktacular adventure, brought to you by the producers of Christmas at ...

That’s about ten times the number of known mammal species on Earth – and we don’t know what or where they are. This great ...

As the nights draw in and temperatures begin to fall, it can only mean one thing: Halloween is right around the corner. Lots ...