Some were alarmingly good. A famous example is the “Piltdown Man” from 1912; a fraudulent fossil of an ancient human ...

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

Join Charlotte Lusty in our latest episode of Dig Deeper as we journey into the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst. Learn how ...

Meet the prehistoric maidenhair tree with stinky fruits, pyramid leaves and an incredible history in the latest episode of ...

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 Director's Correspondence contains letters from several members of the Veitch family, famed for the Veitch & Sons Nurseries, a name synonymous with horticulture for much of the 18th century, when ...

Saxophonist Aaron Liddard brings his dynamic quintet to the stage for an evening of expressive, vibrant jazz. A saxophonist, composer, bandleader and arranger, Liddard has performed and recorded with ...

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 ...

How did the double coconut, one of the natural world’s most celebrated and mysterious phenomena, evolve on a remote island? On the beautiful islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean grows a ...

Marianne North travelled the world painting plants, people and places. Defying Victorian conventions, she left an extraordinary legacy behind. From mighty redwoods in California to pitcher plants in ...

From plants to poo, Kew Research Fellow Dr Si-Chong Chen reveals how seeds use animals as their free ride for dispersal… Plants can’t pick themselves up and move around, so they often need a little ...