🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

If you recognise this contraption and it’s stirs a memory in you, please retweet it to your followers without revealing what it is. Let’s see how far it travels!

📣New job alert! We are looking for a postdoc & two collections assistants to come and join us Science at the Natural History Museum to work on an exciting new collaborative project with @KewScience sequencing our unique lichen collection. For details: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

We the undersigned, support Kew Science staff, asking Richard Deverell the Director and Trustees to reconsider their intention to move Herbarium from Kew Gardens to a new building to be constructed in a business park near Reading using UK taxpayers’ funds. change.org/p/keep-the-kew…

A controversial proposal to relocate Kew Herbarium to make way for the so-called Science Quarter at Kew has sparked outrage among experts and the public alike, raising concerns about the preservation of this valuable collection and the lack of foresight in the proposed plan.

Intersection of nature and science, connections between people and plants inspired by Kew Herbarium 🌺 watch Kew x Marc Quinn youtu.be/Y5u8CKV0HDQ?fe… via YouTube

#gingerplantoftheweek is #etlingerafimbriobracteata from Borneo flowering now in a glasshouse Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/20051848. This species is easily recognised but the reniform anther crest (red in the photo) and also occurs in the Philippines.

#gingerplantoftheweek flowering today at the #royalbotanicgardenskew in the #princessofwalesconservatory is #etlingerahemisphaerica 2013-1466.

Looking for a way to celebrate Dad this weekend? What better way than getting outside and visiting a garden. Click the link to see which gardens are opening this weekend 👉️bit.ly/FathersDayGard… 📷️Home Farmhouse, Norfolk. Open Sat 15 & Sun 16 June #fathersday

Walking through wing A and seeing an amazing display of #Urticaceae being studied @KewScience #herbarium

7/7/24 - A second day leading for Mariposa Nature Tours here in South Cumbria but this time on #HuttonRoof, with botanical treasures hiding in plain sight on the vast landscape. Yellow Birdsnest, variants and hybrids of Dark Red Helleborine and a Holly Fern among the highlights.

‘Three-fourths of the new species are already threatened with extinction. If we don’t have taxonomists to describe these species, we stand little chance of saving them — or their habitat.’ To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy nytimes.com/2024/07/07/opi… #taxonomy #herbarium

A great job for a plant lover. Botanic Garden, University of Dundee is a great garden. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIM188/liv… #botany #horticulture

Maura Flannery’s latest Herbarium World blog ‘Multiple Herbaria’ mentions the percieved significance of ‘the iconic red iron spiral staircase’ when she thinks of Kew Herbarium. herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/mul…

And that's just the cost of the building! Not to mention all the staff time taken already and the future plus costs of moving specimens, staff and collaboration across Kew's existing sites. It's a biodiversity crisis! Not the time to put the critical herbarium in a corner!! 🙏

Management maintain decentralising and deprioritizing Kews collection is to it's advantage. A worrying & very sad example of what happens when natural history collections are out of mind. West Japan university mistakenly discards 10,000 plant specimens mainichi.jp/english/articl…

Great news and about time bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

When Matthew Biggs was faced with a shock cancer diagnosis, he turned to horticulture to help him through. Join David Hurrian for the latest episode of the BBC Gardeners' World Magazine podcast, as he talks with Matt about the power of plants to heal.

Download IRG  177 here: srgc.net/documents/irg/… Contains report from Robertsc Rolfe on the Northern Macedonian Viola shariensis & description from John Weagle of new Erythronium 'Alleyne Cook Cover image: Soldanella pindicola by Robert Rolfe.

Compensate the RHS for £6m charity losses caused by the A3/M25 roadworks - Sign the Petition! chng.it/4p5Dh9Rzr9 via Change.org UK

🌺 Simon Goodenough, former curator of Ventnor Botanic Garden, has sadly passed away, but his legacy lives on 🌳 onthewight.com/simon-goodenou… #iwnews #IsleofWight