For over 100 years, epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants such as orchids & bromeliads - were believed to be widespread and resilient 🌿 But our new study in Nature Plants tells a very different story 👇

This year’s #metgala was based on M.L. Miller’s groundbreaking book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. ...As usual some celebs missed the theme, dressing as some of our favourite fungi 🍄✨ Starting with Cynthia Erivo as Cosmospora arxii 🍄🧵👇

Beautiful Wisteria @rbgkew.bsky.social today

Hampton Court tulips & spring flowers looking colourful!

Magnolias still looking beautiful @rbgkew.bsky.social but will be going over soon!

Great to read about this work to rebuild the crop gene bank in Sudan www.croptrust.org/news-events/...

Trees of New Guinea: - Guide to all 693 tree genera - Fully illustrated with photos and line art - PDF available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

We're making over 7 million specimens freely accessible to anyone around the world, accelerating research into our greatest challenges 🌍 But how can a specimen collected by Charles Darwin help us combat climate change? 🌿 Learn more & help immortalise a specimen today👉 www.kew.org/science/digi...

BIG NEWS: Fungi take the spotlight on the IUCN Red List! 🌏🍄@iucnfungi.bsky.social For the first time, over 1,000 fungi have been assessed - helping us understand the threats they face from habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. 🧪⚒️ #FungiFridays #Conservation

Beautiful Magnolias at Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social at the moment, worth a visit!

It's been busy in Madagascar on our 2025 Herbarium Techniques course! Participants from the University of Antananarivo, Tsimbazaza Zoo & Botanical Gardens, and Kew Madagascar have gotten hands on with best practices for creating high-quality collections and effectively managing herbarium specimens!

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

Pachypodium growing in the RHS Wisley glasshouse, I've been working on a new CITES checklist for Pachypodium.

Crocus display in the RHS Wisley alpine house, love the purple stripes #spring

Orchid overload at the RHS orchid show today, only came home with 1!

Beautiful Chilean blue crocus - Tecophilaea cyanocrocus in the alpine house @rbgkew.bsky.social

Join Kew botanist David Goyder and scientists from the Forgotten Parks Foundation and local experts in the DRC on an unforgettable expedition, working together to uncover rare and beautiful plant species in one of Africa’s most remote landscapes. 🌿📷 👇 Dive into the story: ow.ly/1sLa50VeTAq

Local communities must be part of the solution for conservation! @charlottecouch.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about the amazing work being done in Guinea and IPAs in close collaboration with the local communities. @mobotgarden.bsky.social

First signs of Spring in my garden #daffodil #primrose #iris

🌍 Today is #WorldWildlifeDay & 52 years since CITES was signed! CITES—the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora—regulates the global trade of wildlife to prevent extinction 2025 marks 50 years since CITES came into force!🧵👇 #CITES@50

Over one million species of wild flora and fauna are threatened with extinction, many within decades. Today is #WorldWildlifeDay. Let's take action #ForNature and invest in our planet - every action counts: wildlifeday.org/en

Our team made a display in the @rbgkew.bsky.social herbarium today to celebrate #CITES at 50

Flowers of the Lego kind at the #Lego shop, #London

Winter Aconite flowering @rbgkew.bsky.social today, find it near the Orangery!

Rare enforcement success in the illegal trade of cacti - 2 Italian cacti smugglers prosecuted for illegal trade of over 1000 cacti wild harvested in Chile www.conservation-litigation.org/news/press-r...

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're spotlighting a fantastic project published in BDJ, which used the power of data to uncover the hidden stories of women in science and publish them as a freely available resource. blog.pensoft.net/2023/12/06/e...

50 years of legume research at @rbgkew.bsky.social by Dr Gwil Lewis 👏🎊 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

The world needs more #WomenInScience! But a lack of female role models makes it difficult for girls and women to envision themselves as leaders in science.♀️🧪 This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, meet our scientists and hear their inspiring stories: https://buff.ly/3WVk4qE

Hellebores growing in my garden #winterflowers

Beautiful Peru Orchid festival, open until 2nd March @rbgkew.bsky.social