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  • Coca leaf morphology images with a statue showing coca use by ancient humans
    10 July 2024

    Coca – much more than a drug source

    Ben Evans, Emma Cooper
  • Herbarium specimens from the 1800s
    8 July 2024

    The Damselfly and the Fire Bell – Tales from the Kew herbarium

    Chiara Seed, Runfei Ma
  • Three women stand infront of an enset plant
    5 July 2024

    Preserving Ethiopia's biodiversity: A success story in enset conservation

    Sophie Jago
  • Fog crests a distant hilltop
    7 June 2024

    Protection for Peru’s precious fog oases

    Ben Evans
  • Digitiser holding barcoder to digitise specimen as part of Kew's Digitisation Project
    4 June 2024

    Halfway point reached! 5 million herbarium & fungarium specimens now digitised

    Paul Figg
  • A man holds a large dried fungal specimen in a corridor lined with boxes
    20 May 2024

    Uncovering the DNA inside Kew's fungarium

  • An image of a cell has highlighted the complex structures that hold it together
    15 May 2024

    Why do plants make cancer drugs?

    Dr Tom A K Prescott
  • Herbarium specimens either side of a graphic of Earth, half of which is on fire
    14 May 2024

    How humble herbarium specimens hold the key to combating climate change

    Paul Figg
  • A tree of life for plants shows their evolutionary history across a big wheel
    24 April 2024

    Tales across time from the Plant Tree of Life

    Sebastian Kettley, Ben Evans
  • Many people crowd around an area of tiny saplings
    10 April 2024

    Five ways that Kew is helping to restore Madagascar's dry forests

    Jenny Williams
  • Composition of images including Fort St. George and a couple of Kew's oldest herbarium specimens
    25 March 2024

    Uncovering our oldest specimen and the poisonous scandal behind its collector

    Ben Hirschler
  • Many tiny pink flowers are growing in a regular pattern from a palm plant
    22 March 2024

    The palms of New Guinea

    Professor William J Baker