The NRF (Nature Restoration Fund) Scottish Plant Recovery Project at RBGE aims to restore genetically diverse populations of our endangered Scottish native plants around the country. Whilst rewarding,...| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each digitiser is assigned a family of plants to work through. This series of blogs will spotlight the families tha| Botanics Stories
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Deep within Scottish pine woods, nestled between humid mossy carpets and scattered pine brash on the forest floor, the story of a tiny, unassuming plant: the One-flowered Wintergreen (Moneses uniflora), is beginning to unfold. Beneath its solitary, nodding white flower, and small rosetted leaves, lies a hidden, intricate survival strategy sheathed within the soil.| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...| Botanics Stories
By John Wilkins Professor Emeritus of Greek Culture, University of Exeter Botanists will be familiar with the names of Theophrastus and Dioscorides who organised the description of plants...| Botanics Stories
The naming after white men of plants from remote parts of the world has now come to be seen as reprehensible, so it’s time to ‘fess up’. Two plants bear my name, but both came about when a genus was subsumed into an earlier one, followed by the application of a nomenclatural rule that disallows the| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...| Botanics Stories
The jeweller Susan Cross from Edinburgh College of Art has been in the herbarium recently working on a project about lace. This brought to mind a ‘natural’ source...| Botanics Stories
A younger me taking a selfie at RBGE Weeding woodsia. (Photo by Iain Stewart from Leaves by Studies in Photography). RBGE has been a place that I have visited since I was little, with my parents, with friends or often by myself. It’s a place where one can forget they are in a busy city, as th| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Rose Kent a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each digitiser is assigned a family of plants to work through. This series of blogs will spotlight the families that| Botanics Stories
We are proud to announce that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives are officially now an Accredited Archive Service – a result of many years of hard work...| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...| Botanics Stories
On my daily walk to Wardie Bay I pass a curiosity shop of an almost extinct type, whose proprietor Dorian Hiram has the measure of my eclectic tastes. It started with colonial period Indian silver of which he often obtains pieces from the displenishment of houses of the diminishing band of owners wi| Botanics Stories
It surprises me that, despite all the advances in AI, computers cannot easily and accurately separate crowns of individual trees in a tropical forest seen from space. It can be done but it is not easy. Figure 1. Forest of the Sangha Trinational in Republic of Congo, from a satellite image, access| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...| Botanics Stories
March and April saw the completion of a marathon planting exercise by the Scottish Plant Recovery team to give a helping hand to two threatened native tree species - wych elm (Ulmus glabra) and wild apple (Malus sylvestris), also known as crab apple. The elm is severely affected by a fungal disease| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each digitiser is assigned a family of plants to work through. This series of blogs will spotlight the famili| Botanics Stories
By Madeleine E. Dugan My name is Madeleine Dugan and I am an Art History Mlitt student. As part of my studies at the University of Glasgow, I...| Botanics Stories
By Madeleine E. Dugan My name is Madeleine Dugan and I am an Art History Mlitt student. As part of my studies at the University of Glasgow, I participated in a work placement in the Library at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The RBGE Library is home to at least 20,000 original artworks, as| Botanics Stories
The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August...| Botanics Stories
In September 2024 Lesley Scott exhumed a slightly sinister box from the RBGE Long Store. It contained a bundle of unmounted specimens and was labelled: "Flora of India. Ex Herb H.F. C. Cleghorn (1853). Not Mounted. Not Named. ?Not Dupls?". As his biographer the name Cleghorn was enough to aro| Botanics Stories
An online discussion about exchanging seeds of a new species called Meconopsis jiajinshanensis led to the Chinese botanical website iplant.cn and the page for Meconopsis balangensis var. atrata. The automatic translation of this page into English by Google generated the name Meconopsis jiajin| Botanics Stories
