Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...

The plant, now known as Eugenia venteri, was identified from specimens collected from the province's lowland forests.

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 ...

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

Kew Gardens have a released a list of hundreds of new plants and fungi that were named by their scientists this year - here are five of them.

On a clear, crisp day in late winter, there are few places more heavenly to meander than the scent garden at Hever Castle in Kent. It is easy to overlook, sequestered in a shady corner just outside ...

St Michael's Mount and Trewithen are among the places that lost many of their trees.

Scientists are racing to protect the world’s seeds from natural disasters and war. But what happens when those disasters come ...

The Atlantic Salmon 50p, which in 2023 became the rarest 50p in circulation, sold for £101.33 on eBay ...

At present, almost 2.5 billion seeds belonging to 40,000 distinct plant species are present in the facility.

As its collection rises to nearly 2.5bn, there are signs it is making progress in its ambition to preserve the world’s flora ...