By Liz Kimbrough Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, Research Fellow at Kew and his Peruvian and Ecuadorian colleagues, including ...

KEW Gardens is one of the most important botanical gardens in the world, with over 50,000 living plants. The London attraction, which is home to the world’s largest living plant collection at a single ...

Specialists at Kew Gardens are digitising its entire archive of eight million dried plant specimens, including some picked by the naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin. The biggest project ever ...

Enset (Ensete ventricosum), an African relative of the much-beloved banana plant, is flowering inside of Kew Gardens' Temperate House, marking the very first time this extraordinary plant has produced ...

MY FIRST trip to London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was spectacular. I set out on an unusually mild February day to visit this year’s annual orchid festival, which was celebrating the 4000-plus ...

London may be a sprawling metropolis, but it’s also a garden lover’s paradise. With more than 3,000 parks and green spaces, the capital offers everything from manicured royal gardens to secret urban ...