Kew's scientists and international partners share their favourite species named as new to science in another big year for nature. In the past 12 months, our taxonomists and our collaborators around ...

With the two episodes available today, Kew's new Unearthed: The need for seeds podcast celebrates 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Wakehurst, the most significant wild seed bank in the ...

Anniversary marked by launch of new podcast Unearthed: The need for seeds with Cate Blanchett Seed bank at Wakehurst holds world’s most diverse collection of wild plant seeds with solutions to address ...

Join Kew experts as they travel across Sweden, Romania and Georgia to discover the trees of tomorrow that can adapt to a changing climate. For over 200 years, Kew Gardens has been home to thousands of ...

Ash dieback is a disease caused by a fungus called Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, an invasive species which has spread across Europe in the past 30 years. The fungus grows into the trees’ vascular systems ...

This summer, Kew Gardens in London will unveil one of its most ambitious garden projects in recent years: the Carbon Garden. Opening in July 2025, this innovative new garden will not only showcase the ...

Kew's scientists and international partners share their 10 favourite species named as new to science in the past 12 months. It's been another busy year here at Kew, with our scientists and their ...

As the biodiversity COP16 unfolds in Colombia, a hot discussion is taking place on the fair use of ‘digital sequence information’ – but what is it really? Easy access to DNA is one of the 21st century ...

Meet the fantastic flower from over 100 million years ago that's still bringing a splash of colour to gardens today. A much-needed burst of vibrant colour at the beginning of spring, magnolias are a ...

It's rather strange that plants make cancer chemotherapy drugs don’t you think? It's not just one example. There is 'vinblastine' and 'vincristine', which are derived from the Madagascan periwinkle ...

DNA of over 9,500 flowering plants sequenced to produce massive genomic tree of life ‘Like a periodic table for flowering plants’ - tree maps how plants are related DNA sequenced from living & ...

Our Herbarium at Kew was founded more than 170 years ago, but the oldest specimens in the collection go back much further. They reveal the determined efforts of early botanists to catalogue the ...