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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Botanical illustrator Stella Ross Craig is known for her skilled line drawings such as this Rosa tomentosa from her magnum opus 'Drawings of British Plants' - a series to which she dedicated 25 years. See other examples of her work in Kew's Library display, open Tues-Wed 10.00-4.00, until 21st May.

Photograph of a black and white line drawing depicting two flowers, leaves and the stem of a rose plant. Illustrations of plant parts (labelled with a letter relating to a key, and their magnification) are drawn around the outer edge of the plate. In the lower left corner can be seen two drawings of the magnified leaf surface while a cross section of the flower is shown in the lower right corner. Despite being rendered in monochrome the drawing is skillfully shaded to show the shape of the plant.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🎨Stella Ross-Craig (1906-2006) is known for her skilled line drawings such as this Rosa tomentosa from her work 'Drawings of British Plants' - a series to which she dedicated 25 years! Keen to see other examples of her drawings in Kew's Library display? Details on the display below 👇 #KewLA

Black and white line drawing depicting two flowers, leaves and the stem of a rose plant. Illustrations of plant parts (labelled with a letter relating to a key, and their magnification) are drawn around the outer edge of the plate. In the lower left corner can be seen two drawings of the magnified leaf surface while a cross section of the flower is shown in the lower right corner. Despite being rendered in monochrome the drawing is skillfully shaded to show the shape of the plant.

Poster for the exhibition 'Flora, Dissected: The Botanical Illustrations of Stella Ross-Craig, from Britain and Beyond' at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The main focal illustration is a coloured illustration of Banksia. Below the title of the exhibition is: "Visit our display showcasing original material from Kew's Library & Archives.". The date and location info is included on the bottom right under a small map detailing the entrance: "10th February to 21st May 2026. Library & Archives Reading Room. Tuesday and Wednesday (10am-4pm). No booking required. library@kew.org."

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Orchids are still being discovered 🌸 A newly described miniature species, Telipogon choquequiraoense, shows why taxonomy matters: you can’t protect what you can’t properly document 🧪 🌎 Dig into the details: diagnostic features, comparisons & figures are in the paper here: ow.ly/loZl50Y9qOL

Close-up of orchid (Telipogon choquequiraoense) with translucent yellow-green petals and a dark, fuzzy central lip against a black background. Picture by Jhon Yuca.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

💘 Love at first Type Over the past two years, the Fungarium Sequencing Project team have analysed thousands of beautiful fungal Type specimens - the original references used to describe a species. This #ValentinesDay, we’re sharing one very special Type, from us to you 🍄💖

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🎉 Today is Darwin’s birthday! This is an actual wild tomato plant that he collected, over 180 years ago! 🍅 We have millions of specimens like these in our collection, but did you know you can now see them on our new Data Portal, for free!? 👇 👉 ow.ly/2ZuW50YcG4Z #DarwinDay

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This 19th Century watercolour of the Chinese orchid Vanda concolor from Kew's Library is thought to have been illustrated by an unrecorded Chinese artist. See spectacular examples of live orchids on show as part of our Orchid Festival at Kew: 7 February - 8 March 2026 👉 www.kew.org/kew-gardens/...

Image showing a watercolour of the orchid Vanda concolor depicting the roots, leaves and purple brown flowers of the plant. A flower dissection is shown in the lower right hand corner of the image with its five petals spread out like an exploding star. Text along the upper left of the image reads 'Chinese Plants from the Collection of Sir W.J. Hooker' with text in Chinese characters to the lower right of the image.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We’re celebrating our Science Collections Digitisation Project volunteers – an incredible team whose work has powered this project forward over the last four years 🌿

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🌎 Applications are now open for the Emily Holmes Memorial Scholarships! 🎓 These scholarships provide funding towards plant and fungal postgraduate research projects 🧪 Apply now 👇 ow.ly/Xir050Y9r2A

Four scientists in white lab coats conducting experiments with petri dishes and beakers in a laboratory.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Join governments and businesses at Chatham House Events' Climate and Energy Summit to explore strategies for a resilient future. 🗓️ 10-11 March 2026 📍Chatham House & online Book here 👉 ow.ly/yFk350Y0NSV

Wind turbines and solar panels at sunset illustrating renewable energy for the Climate and Energy Summit 2026.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Here are some books we came across during a project in the mycology library last week. Our Library and Archives collections do not only cover plants, but also fungi and lichens. Some have very beautiful illustrations. Others (like the cordyceps) are rather gruesome... 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 #KewLA

Open book with a colour illustration of a bolete on the right-hand page. The description is in Polish.

Black and white illustration of various fungi

Detail of a colour illustration of various insects and cordyceps fungi growing out of them.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Amongst the notes of 19th century horticulturalist & botanist John Fraser, we spotted this list of unwelcome visitors to a property in Kew! John's ‘uninvited guests’ were botanical rather than human, including species such as thornapple and gallant soldier. How many can you recognise? #KewLA

A section of a notebook, rest on foam supports. The page is titled ‘7. Uninvited guests at 4 Willow Cottages, Kew, 1892-1915’. Beneath this are two columns, listing the names of plants found at the property: datura stramonium; Amaranthus retroflexus; Oxalis corniculata rubia; Oenothera lamarckiana; [?] roseum; Lychnis alba; Silene latifolia; Chenopodium rubrum; Senebiera didyma; Senebiera coronopus; Melilotus indicus (1917); Euphorbia virgata; Sisyrinchium angustifolium; Papaver somniferum; Galinsoga parviflora; Epilobium hirsutum; Ornithopus perpusillus; S.noctiflora; Althaca rosea

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

MPNS v15 is now live! 🌿 A free, authoritative reference for 41,878 medicinal plants - now with images added for the first time, more global sources, stronger data links and updated taxonomy. Plant names are messy. Clear data matters for global health. Explore 👉 ow.ly/Ktzt50Y0wv1

Close-up images of vibrant purple saffron crocus flowers and harvested red saffron threads in jars and bowls on Kew's MPNS database

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A ‘zombie’ fungus. A ‘bloodstained’ orchid. A plant name straight out of Studio Ghibli 🧪 They’re all in the next issue of Kew Science - plus a few sharp takes on what’s changing in plant science right now 🌍 Want the full story? Get it in your inbox: ow.ly/vGPT50Y1Iz2

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Traditional medicine is moving centre stage at WHO 🌍🌿 But safe, effective use depends on knowing which plants are being used. MPNS v15 helps cut through confusing names - now covering ~42,000 medicinal plants, with images added for the first time. Explore 👉 ow.ly/ui9N50Y0wNq

Person wearing a straw hat and gray shirt crouches while spreading goji berries on a large drying surface outdoors.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This year, the taxonomists on the Fungarium Sequencing Project had a goal to review 10,000 specimens. They hit their target an impressive three months ahead of schedule, so to celebrate their hard work, here are some of the stories they’ve uncovered!

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🗺️What a multi-lingual collection: Jacques Gay was a botanist and collector from Switzerland and our Archives hold over 35 volumes of his manuscripts. He wrote mainly in French, although Latin and even Greek found its way into his writing as well. Any polyglots able to translate? #KewLA

Four sheets of paper, roughly A6-sized, pasted onto a larger page. The individual smaller pages are handwritten and contain notes in French, Greek, and Latin. They are presumably notes or correspondence on specific specimens and plants collected by or for Gay.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Millions of records, centuries of discovery, all in one place 🌿 From specimens gathered on 18th-century voyages to Kew’s living collections of today, our data reveals the diversity of plant & fungal life — now accessible wherever you are 👇 ow.ly/OJLY50XZzOX

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We're joining the Heritage Fund UK in celebrating #HeritageTreasures! Kew's Marianne North Gallery was completed in 1882, with much needed restoration work done on the Gallery and its paintings in 2008. The restoration was made possible in part with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund 🎨🖌️

A colour photograph showing the restored interior of the Marianne North Gallery at Kew. The photograph shows the view from inside the rear gallery looking ahead towards the entrance doors through which streams light which reflects on the brown, black and orange tiles of the Gallery floor. Different woods can be seen set running around the lower panels of the Gallery walls above which runs a wooden rail set with intermittent labels describing the woods and paintings which are set in a colourful jigsaw fashion from mid height to high up on the wall.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It’s official, 125 plants and 65 fungi were named NEW to science in 2025! Every year, our botanists & mycologists work with partners across the world to officially name & describe new species to science 🧪 See our list of the top ten! 👉 ow.ly/J7LY50XT51M

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We've all mislaid our keys, but this one made it to the other side of the world! The Library and Archives were delighted when Adelaide Botanic Garden recently arranged for donation of a key that was previously owned by Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck - granddaughter of King George III #KewLA

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from our research & collections teams here at Kew! We're looking forward to sharing more stories and highlights with you in 2026 🎄 Beautiful illustration below from our LAA team #KewLA 👇

Coloured illustration of Ilex aquifolium (Holly). Small red berries are at the bottom of a stem with long green leaves with ragged and sharp edges pointing outwards from the stem. A smaller illustration in the bottom right corner shows the plant in pink, in its flowering stage.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🌺If you're free on 15th January and would like to find out more about our Persian collections, why not sign up for one of our art workshops? More info in the booking links below 👇#KewLA Morning slot: ow.ly/x0cl50XMcGy Afternoon slot: ow.ly/IvwE50XMcGz

Coloured illustration of a Rosa persica (Persian rose). The slightly yellowed page shows stem, leaves, two yellow flowers and one in the process of flowering. Two yellow petals are shown dropping at the bottom.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This #FungiFriday we are looking at the work of PhD Student Rose Gooda! Rose is studying the role of mycorrhizal fungi in the natural colonisation of forest in the UK, & recently conducted fieldwork in a temperate oak rainforest in Dartmoor where regeneration efforts are underway 👇 📸 © David Satori

Mycorrhizal fungi pulled from the ground

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Did you know that dried plant specimens, some collected hundreds of years ago, are helping us understand climate change today? 🌎

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

How do wild plants shape daily life in Guinea - & what’s at risk if they disappear? 🌿 A new open-access study has created the first nationwide checklist of wild useful plant species in Guinea - identifying 399 species used for medicine, materials, and food, & mapping the threats to their survival🧵👇

Three people examining plants closely near a riverbank surrounded by dense greenery and tall grasses.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

POV: You're scrolling through the Mycology team's camera roll after a field trip 🍄 Several members of the team recently spent time in Dumfries & Galloway, on the border of Scotland, as part of a field trip - one of which alongside the British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk 👇 [1/2]

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🎶A botanical musical? We recently stumbled across these in the 'Flora Cibaria' manuscript of botanist Lilly Wigg (1749-1828). The volumes consist of other people's writings and are full of surprises, with psalms and melodies strewn throughout, and little direct link to the botany on the page. #KewLA

Two lines of musical notation written vertically down a page in a bound manuscript volume. On either side of the notation are handwritten notes referencing plants, their uses and publications relating to them. As the photo is taken at an angle, some of the writing is cropped.

Trippasia R 15.
Citrus parva
Guin I 63

Balsamita vulgar...
Willd Tom III Pars III ...
Tanacetum Balsamita ...
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Ulva diaphana makes an excellent pickle. Mr J D Downes.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Registration is NOW OPEN for our State of the World's Plants and Fungi Symposium, 29 June - 1 July 2026! 🌍 The theme will be 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation' & will follow the release of the next State of the World's Report 🌱🍄 Learn more & register here 👉 ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Interested in Persian collections? This Wednesday, we will be hosting a talk about the Persian materials within our archive, focusing on the unexpected cultural & social histories: Learn more 👉 ow.ly/ENHb50XCLJ2 #KewLA

Photo of a woman in a yellow top, with dark hair, drawing sitting at a desk, with other opposite. Colouring pencils and textile are visible on the table. 2) Sketch of a maintain range, mostly in pencil, but with some colour (green) indicating the plants and trees on the mountain range. Some place names are indicated with arrows in manuscript.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Do we have archives relating to your history? Probably! Our archive reflects global histories & is open to all. Conservator Shabnam Balouch has helped uncover our Persian archive, and you can find out more at an upcoming talk & our free public workshops in January! #EYAYourArchives #KewLA

Poster for an exhibition at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, titled 'Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage'. The exhibition dates 30 September 2025 to 21 January 2026. The text is laid over a collage of archive materials: a coloured illustration of a yellow-flowered Rosa persica, yellow and orange Persian lime and typewritten text.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

For #EYAAnniversaries, we delved into collections on our Millennium Seed Bank, which opened at Wakehurst 25 years ago. Among the reports & articles on the development of one of the world’s largest seed banks, we discovered publicity materials featuring none other than Sir David Attenborough! #KewLA

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Happy #EYAInclusion Day! We believe archives are for everyone, and we recently hosted workshops with Persian communities who visited our current exhibition & created beautiful booklets inspired by the items on display! It's vital that anyone who wants to use archives is able to access them. #KewLA

Photograph over the shoulder of a woman with long dark hair, sitting at a table drawing. In front of her on the table are papers of different sizes and drawing materials, such as coloured pencils.

A dark wooden table with fixed lamps. Across the table, papers of different sizes are strewn, showing photographs of pomegranates, exhibition flyers for 'Persia Reimagined', copies of archive materials, drawing mats and coloured pencils, as well as patterned shawls. Two people's hands can be seen at the top of the picture, in the middle of drawing.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Our mycologists were taken by surprise this week when a visiting researcher found a curious pink truffle-like fungus under eucalyptus trees in the gardens.

The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding

from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

For #EYADigital, we’re looking back at how Kew managed its corporate records - from filing paper documents to reviewing which should be archived or securely destroyed. While some paper files remain, we now support staff in managing records effectively in a primarily digital environment. #KewLA

Numerous paper registered files stored vertically on five horizontal white shelves.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Did you know botanist Sir Joseph Hooker travelled with two Bhotea mastiff dogs? Today’s featured image for #ExploreYourArchive Week #EYAPets is a playful drawing from his letters, showing Kinchin the dog being ‘taught’ to write.

A letter which at the top includes a drawing in ink and the number ‘151’ printed and written in the top left corner. The drawing depicts from left to right: a pot cooking with steam rising from it; a Bhotea mastiff dog writing a note using a quill; a tent with a person sat at a table inside. There are mountains drawn in the background. Underneath, the letter notes that it was sent from Darjeeling on April 2. The contents of the letter discuss Joseph Hooker’s Bhotea mastiffs – Bruno and puppy Kinchin. It mentions that Kinchin is cleaned daily with mustard oil and woods ashes, he steals cheese from Joseph Hooker’s dinner and that Kinchin learnt English was being taught how to write. Ref: JDH/1/10, ff.151

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

For #EYASilence, we thought it fitting to look back at a time in which the Gardens had to be silent. This instruction sheet, issued during the Blitz in WWII, and an air raid logbook detail how the frequency of bombing raids led to the regular suppression of daily operations. #KewLA

Two typewritten documents, situated in the centre and left-hand side, layered on top of a handwritten logbook, situated on the right-hand side.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Ever seen fungal illustrations? 🍄 Our Fungarium Sequencing Project Team is thrilled to show some of the original illustrations that were created when the species were first described as new to science. In some cases, this is the only visual reference material of the original fungus that we have! 🧵👇

Hand-drawn botanical illustration of red-capped mushrooms labeled Amanitopsis pulchella, with additional dried mushroom specimens and handwritten notes on a beige paper background.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

While most of our archives are from the 19th century onwards, we do have a few older records, including this #EYAMedieval land deed from 1451! It is written in Latin and relates to Ardingly, which is near where our second site Wakehurst is located. #KewLA

A handwritten document laid out and held down by snake weights. It is written in Latin, in early modern handwriting. It is possibly a land deed.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂 Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast. Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇 ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

Illustration showing a person examining a plant with text about the scarcity of plant taxonomists worldwide.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

What #EYABeauty lies on the inside of this unassuming folder? We're showing off Elsie Wakefield's fungi illustrations today 🍄 Wakefield became Head of Mycology at Kew Gardens in 1915 and our Archives hold her personal papers collection, which includes letters, illustrations and photographs. #KewLA

A blank grey paper folder on a brown wooden surface.

Numerous coloured illustrations of mushrooms layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On each sheet there are light pencil annotations next to the illustrations.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Did you know today is #EYAConservation day? We’re celebrating with this 1734 engraved map by John Rocque, showing the gardens, park and related buildings of the Royal Family at Kew. Our conservator has mounted it on a board for support and advises Melinex sleeves and flat storage. #KewLA

A plan of the House, Gardens, Park and Hermitage of their Majesties at Richmond by John Rocque. Shows Oven House, the Summer House, Merlin's Cave, the Hermitage, the Dairy House, the Green House and the Orangery, 'His Majesties House in Richmond' North and South prospects. Includes numbered references showed on the plan referring to other features in the Gardens; this is also written in French. Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse, Cornhill. Unmounted engraving in blue card folder. The main Gardens are depicted across three quarters of the spread with individual illustrations of buildings filling the top right-hand corner.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

For #NationalIllustrationDay, we're spoilt for choice by the illustrations we could post! We've settled on this hand-coloured lithograph of Strelitzia reginae by Francis Bauer who was employed as first resident botanical at Kew in 1790 with the grand title of ‘Botanick Painter to His Majesty’.

Botanical illustration of a Strelitzia or 'Bird of Paradise' sensitively painted to show the horizontal green and pink bract from which emerge flowers of striking orange and blue. The plant is chopped at the stem and a dissection of part of the flower is shown in the lower right.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

On #NationalTreeWeek we'd like to highlight the incredible efforts of Kew's past colleagues who were faced with the challenging task of moving trees across the Gardens. This photograph from Kew's Library and Archives depicts William Barron's ingenious horse-drawn tree transporter 🌳 #KewLA

Black and white photograph showing a large tree sitting in a cart attached to three horses who are ready to pull it across the Gardens. The reigns of each horse are held by a handler and the faint outline of Kew's Palm House can be seen in the background.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Did you know Kew’s Library and Archives hold 7,000+ Indian illustrations? This vibrant Pajanelia longifolia piece by Vishnupersad - commissioned by Nathaniel Wallich - is now on show. Explore Flora Indica at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery through April 2026. #KewLA

Illustration of Pajanelia longifolia (named as Bignonia multijuga) showing the flowers and leaves of the plant which has been cut off at the stem. Several branches of green leaves fan out from the stem above which are shown pale yellow flowers each with a delicate purple centre. The faint undersketch of a leaf can be seen in the upper right while three partially coloured fllower dissections can be seen on the right. Underneath the illustration to the left is written 'Wallich 1828 East Ind. Co.' which makes reference to Wallich's employer - The East India Company. Two different plant determinations are also written under the image identifying it as Pajanelia rheedii or Bignonia multijuga

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today we're celebrating the official 25th birthday of the Millennium Seed Bank - 25 years of pioneering seed-saving science and a future of restoring habitats across the globe 🌍🌱🎉 Want in? Access 25 years of research, partnerships and seed collections right here 👇 www.kew.org/wakehurst/wh...

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

What does it take to save Mozambique's plants? 🧑‍🔬 5 new networks of trained seed conservationists 🌱 Local community initiatives 🌍 57 new Important Plant Areas and more For 10 years we've been helping biodiversity with the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique 👇 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

Three researchers eat fruit surrounded by trees and shrubs

A researcher collects fruit from a plant

Lilac flowers grow from the end of a leafy branch

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Thousands of species, one big question: can global trade be sustainable? 🌿🌏 At #CITESCOP20 in Uzbekistan, our science policy team will be helping shape global decisions on sustainable trade. With their new blog you can learn more about what’s at stake 👇 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

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CITES COP20: Protecting plants through sustainable trade

What is CITES COP20, why does it matters, and how is Kew helping to shape global decisions?

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Autumn is in full swing, and so is mushroom season! This lovely engraving is from the 1675 book "Theatrum Fungorum" by Belgian priest and mycologist Franciscus van Sterbeeck. The facial expressions of the children above the doorway symbolise edible (left) versus poisonous (right) mushrooms. #KewLA

Black and white illustration of a market scene with mushroom sellers. At the back is a stone archway with van Sterbeeck's portrait above it. Surrounding him are children holding garlands of mushrooms, with smiling faces on the left, and sad expressions on the right.

Title page of the book by Franciscus van Sterbeeck. The titles reads: Theatrum Fungorum oft het Tooneel der Campernoelien. It has a further description about the contents of the work in Dutch. It was published in 1675 in Antwerp by Joseph Iacobs and has a small engraving of a bundle of mushrooms at the bottom. The page has a library stamp at the top left and slight yellowing.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Today on #ArmisticeDay, we're remembering the Kew staff who served during both World Wars and balanced their lives in science and horticulture with duty and sacrifice 🧵👇 #KewLA

Herbarium illustration of a paper showing colour code bar at the top of the image.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Once on the edge of extinction in England, the rare Fen Orchid is making a comeback 🎉🌸 Careful conservation has helped this delicate plant reclaim its place in wetlands - one of many hopeful stories from the new GB Red List for vascular plants 🧵👇🌿

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