Our next lecture will take place on 18th April @ 6pm Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh given by Prof Thorunn 🇮🇸 🌿
“The Hidden Half: a journey through plant-microbe interactions”
Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh
Free to attend, all welcome 🍄🌻🦠
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🌸 Plant of the week this week is Blackthorn Prunus spinosa 🌸
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Very pleased to have a chance to speak to the Botanical Society of Scotland next week. Its been good fun putting together a presentation focused on some of the things we know about the plants from our excavations!

Our next lecture will take place 6-7 pm on Thur 21st March Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh given by Graeme Warren (@graemewarren.bsky.social)
Titled: Everything is Connected to Everything Else: Deep-Time Histories of Hunter-Gatherers in the Cairngorms
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Join us on March 28 to hear about Chris Thorogood's journey to study and protect the plant with the world's largest flowers - Rafflesia, a biological enigma. (You'd be forgiven if you thought these flowers were fake but they are not!).
HYBRID event.
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🌼🌼Caltha palustris, Marsh Marigold🌼🌼is our plant of the week
Find out more on our new website 👇👇
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We are delighted to have reached an agreement with UK Government to stay in our home at Burlington House.

The deal will enable us to share our Collections, engage with the public, and work on behalf of the natural world for years to come.

Read more at ow.ly/Fqv850QNLOx

Plant of the week, Giant Redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum

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Two excited lectures coming up this week:
7.15 pm Tue 13th, 'The Flora of Jersey' by Professor Hamlyn Jones held @ Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
6 pm Thurs 15th, 'The quest for a perfect plant ID method for beginners' by Richard Milne Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences held @ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

🔬🌱 Celebrate International Day of Women in Science with our series From Biomes to Botany, spotlighting some of the brilliant women in the @RBGE_Science team delivering high-impact research on biodiversity and conservation programmes around the world👉rbge.cc/48ZWg93

Our online short course in sedge identification for beginners is open now for 2024! napier.ac.uk/study-with-us/… Plantlife
BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
BSBI Scotland
BSBI Ireland
National Plant Monitoring Scheme
Bot Soc Scot
The Wild Flower Society
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Leif Bersweden
CIEEM
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If you are interested in plant ID there is an excellent talk @RBGE_Science on 15 February from 6 - 7:00 pm 'The Quest for a Perfect Plant ID Method for Beginners' by our brilliant Richard Milne Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh Access via the Science Buildings main reception, 20A Inverleith Row

Join our event on Feb 29, co-hosted with the The Linnean Society of London, which will end with a keynote address from Kew Ambassador James Wong James A Wong!

Save the date for our next winter lecture from Dr Markus Ruhsam @RBGE_Science
18th Jan, 18.00 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Conservation of wild apple (Malus sylvestris) and assessment of the threat hybridisation poses to the British bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
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Did you miss any of our evening lectures last year??
Why not catch up on our YouTube account 👇👇
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We have a new website for 2024🥳
Come take a look 👇🪻🌼🌾🌽🌿
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Come join us tonight! for a really exciting final lecture of 2023 👇

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎄 Thank you to New York Botanical Garden herbarium for a large loan of specimens to be studied by our fern experts @RBGE_Science

#PlantAtlas2020 is coming to Scottish Parliament tomorrow!
Mark Ruskell has invited #BSBI to the Scottish Parliament to share the findings of #PlantAtlas2020 with MSPs - looking forward to discussing Scotland's threatened flora & how Plant Atlas 2020 can support Scottish Government's nature targets!

Join us Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for our final winter lecture of 2023 this Thursday, 21 Dec @ 17:30 - 19:00
Dr Netty van Dijk UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Ammonia, killer of our peatlands
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!