Researchers rediscover a rare ‘ghost orchid’ in Meghalaya’s Khasi Hills, marking its first record in India after 175 years.
An international collaboration between Illinois College’s biology and chemistry departments and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ...
Samurai at The British Museum. 3 February-4 May 2026, £17.
Orchids will take over London’s Kew Gardens for Chinese New Year.
According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...
Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...
Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches upwards of 10-feet-tall. These plants feature fiery red, yellow, and ...
The Kew Gardens Orchid Festival returns to London this February with a display inspired by the biodiversity of China.
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.
Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025.View on euronews ...
Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly extinct.