Living collections: Biodiversity cultivated at public gardens has the power to connect ecological questions and evolutionary context bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Our Manuscript of the Week is a collection of astronomical & medical tracts, RIA MS B ii 1. Originally written in Arabic in the 9th C by Messahalah of Alexandria, these texts were later translated into Latin before being translated into Irish, as in this early 15th C manuscript.

Closing Friday! It's your last chance to see our #FreeExhibition on changing views of nature in the revolutionary age. Visit 10am-5pm Tues-Friday. More at linnean.org/research-colle… The exhibition is a collaboration with Edwin Rose and Staffan Müller-Wille at Cambridge University.

Wistman's Wood, a high altitude oakwood on Dartmoor. Oaks have been growing here for over 7,000 years with little or no human interaction. Photo: Neil Burnell

A #newspecies from the mint family has been discovered in China. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phytok… #Lamiaceae

The heat is on... "Global #climate change disrupts key ecological processes and biotic interactions." A recent study shows that bumble #bees lose their sense of smell after heat waves, threatening crops that rely on these pollinators. #Science #Ecology

Elisa Honorine Champin (1807-1871). Artistas naturalistas del Jardin des Plantes de París. Ilustró el "Álbum Vilmorin" (1850-95), un catálogo de la prestigiosa compañía productora de semillas Vilmorin, que comprendía todos los tipos de especies de horticultura.

Linnean Lens, our regular online 'show and tell', is coming up on 10 Sept at 2pm. Librarian @WillBeharell will take us through Elizabeth Blackwell’s Curious Herbal. A scientific and artistic achievement, created to save the author's family from debt. eventbrite.com/e/linnean-lens…

John Gould's works on birds are scientific treasures, but who was the skilled illustrator behind many of the beautiful images? In a recent Linnean Lens, Andrea Hart told us about the significant, but lesser-known, legacy of Elizabeth Gould. Watch at youtube.com/watch?v=W6IAQD…

Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California Photo: Rick Goldwaser

Herbarium collections remain essential in the age of community science nature.com/articles/s4146…

Are you an artist? Do you use our digital collection? if so we want to hear from you this #SciArtSeptember so we can shout about your work. This stunning jewellery by Jade Mellor is inspired by the caddisfly collection, visit jademellor.com to see more of Jade's work

This 154 yr old illustration is perhaps THE most beautiful we've come across while digitising our herbarium collection 🌸🖍 Drawn by Harriet Scott, one of Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators, it shows the stark difference between a live & dried specimen 👇

More than 1m illegally harvested succulents have been seized by SA 🇿🇦 authorities since 2019 - poaching fueled by web and social media sales 📈 With TRAFFIC and eBay we're increasing online trade transparency to help plants and legal sellers 👇 kew.org/abouts-us/pres…

Nuevo🧵(1/3) Décima ficha de la diversidad de ORQUÍDEAS presentes en ASTURIAS. En esta ocasión os presentamos: Epipactis palustris Indurot UCC+I UniOvi Universidad Oviedo #BiodiversidaddeAsturias

Frontispiece by John Carwitham to J Duke's 'The Compleat Florist' of 1747, "printed and sold by J Robinson at Ye Golden Lyon, Ludgate Street"

Two months ago I walked part of the route that apothecaries James Petiver and James Sherard followed on a botanising tour in 1714. Today, Richard Coulton and I explored another section of their route. Leaving London 15 August, they followed this course from a 1753 map NHM Botany 1/17

'In Your Garden', the first of four volumes of Vita Sackville-West's collected Observer columns - still as relevant and informative today as they were when published in 1951.

JOBS: Interested in becoming part of Kew's largest project to date? We're looking for two Digitisation Officers to help make our entire collection of over 7m specimens accessible to everyone around the world 🌍 Learn more 👉careers.kew.org/vacancy/digiti…

🧵 Extremely excited to share our updated #Orchid Tree of Life poster, led by Kew Gardens and inc. over 40 coauthors! It showcases the latest relationships, origin timings of major groups, and key facts, inc. global #species richness and those under threat of #extinction 1/2