If you can't get to the gardens, let us bring the gardens to you. Travel to the tropics, the desert and the mountains without leaving the house with our seasonal footage and a sneak peek at our ...

Now, they’re being transformed into sustainable handcrafted wooden homeware so you can take a piece of Kew home with you and ...

Choose between our Adult membership and whether you want to add a donation to support our vital work creating a thriving planet for all, powered by plants and fungi. Choose between our Joint Adult ...

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Important: Please do not use this article as medical advice. If you have a health condition or are considering using plants for treatment, speak to a doctor or qualified medical professional first. Of ...

Terms and conditions for goods and services supplied to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Kew Enterprises: We pay for some lower value goods, services and works with the Government Procurement Card and ...

Exploring properties of plants and fungi, and their potential applications to human health, well-being and sustainable development.

Madagascar is the world’s fourth largest island and a global biodiversity hotspot. Vast ancient grasslands, lush humid rainforests and unique dry spiny forests are just some of the ecosystems found on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Paton, Assistant Keeper of Kew's Herbarium, describes some of the problems associated with plant names and the importance of the new release of The Plant List. How do I communicate about plants?

RBG Kew’s fifth State of the World’s report, published today, lays out the current condition of the world’s plants and fungi globally. Based on the work of 200 international researchers and covering ...