Emma Williams

Red and green bromeliads growing epiphytically on a mossy tree trunk in a tropical forest.

Researcher wearing glasses and a cap points to a small epiphytic plant growing on a mossy tree trunk in a forest.

For over 100 years, epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants such as orchids & bromeliads - were believed to be widespread and resilient 🌿

But our new study in Nature Plants tells a very different story 👇

Cynthia Erivo in a black and red dress. Photo copyright Harpers Bazaar

A black fungus ball with red and transparent droplets © Max Mudie, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)

This year’s #metgala was based on M.L. Miller’s groundbreaking book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.

...As usual some celebs missed the theme, dressing as some of our favourite fungi 🍄✨

Starting with Cynthia Erivo as Cosmospora arxii 🍄🧵👇

Beautiful Wisteria @rbgkew.bsky.social today

Hampton Court tulips & spring flowers looking colourful!

Magnolias still looking beautiful @rbgkew.bsky.social but will be going over soon!

Sudan’s National Genebank Begins Rebuilding as Famine Threatens Staff count the cost of armed conflict and step up efforts to conserve Sudan’s unique collection of sorghum and other crops. Almost two years after Sudan’s c...

Great to read about this work to rebuild the crop gene bank in Sudan www.croptrust.org/news-events/...

Trees of New Guinea:

- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Crete, lots of pretty spring flowers!

We're making over 7 million specimens freely accessible to anyone around the world, accelerating research into our greatest challenges 🌍

But how can a specimen collected by Charles Darwin help us combat climate change? 🌿

Learn more & help immortalise a specimen today👉 www.kew.org/science/digi...

Hygrocybe intermedia - Milan Zajac

BIG NEWS: Fungi take the spotlight on the IUCN Red List! 🌏🍄@iucnfungi.bsky.social
For the first time, over 1,000 fungi have been assessed - helping us understand the threats they face from habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.
🧪⚒️ #FungiFridays #Conservation

Beautiful Magnolias at Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social at the moment, worth a visit!

It's been busy in Madagascar on our 2025 Herbarium Techniques course!

Participants from the University of Antananarivo, Tsimbazaza Zoo & Botanical Gardens, and Kew Madagascar have gotten hands on with best practices for creating high-quality collections and effectively managing herbarium specimens!

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century

If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

Pachypodium growing in the RHS Wisley glasshouse, I've been working on a new CITES checklist for Pachypodium.

Crocus display in the RHS Wisley alpine house, love the purple stripes #spring

It was hard, they were all so pretty!

Orchid overload at the RHS orchid show today, only came home with 1!

Tecophilaea cyanocrocus Leyb. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science The native range of this species is Chile (Santiago). It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Plants of the world online by @rbgkew.bsky.social has a profile all about the species powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

The genus is named after Tecophilaea Billotti, the daughter of Italian botanist Luigi Aloysius Colla, the name mean lover of children, so unusual!

Beautiful Chilean blue crocus - Tecophilaea cyanocrocus in the alpine house @rbgkew.bsky.social

David Goyder: The Thrill of Discovering — 1 in 6 by 2030

Join Kew botanist David Goyder and scientists from the Forgotten Parks Foundation and local experts in the DRC on an unforgettable expedition, working together to uncover rare and beautiful plant species in one of Africa’s most remote landscapes. 🌿📷
👇 Dive into the story: ow.ly/1sLa50VeTAq

Local communities must be part of the solution for conservation! @charlottecouch.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about the amazing work being done in Guinea and IPAs in close collaboration with the local communities. @mobotgarden.bsky.social

Purple colour Iris flowers in a pot, bright yellow daffodils in garden, pale yellow primrose flowers in garden

First signs of Spring in my garden #daffodil #primrose #iris

Slides taken in 1988 show an endangered Paphiopedilum godefroyae orchid confiscated from the wildlife trade and in storage at Kew

🌍 Today is #WorldWildlifeDay & 52 years since CITES was signed!

CITES—the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora—regulates the global trade of wildlife to prevent extinction

2025 marks 50 years since CITES came into force!🧵👇 #CITES@50

A leopard rests its head on a thick tree branch, gazing into the distance. Its golden fur, covered in black rosettes, contrasts with the surrounding green foliage. The background is softly blurred, creating a peaceful jungle atmosphere.

Over one million species of wild flora and fauna are threatened with extinction, many within decades.

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay. Let's take action #ForNature and invest in our planet - every action counts: wildlifeday.org/en

Display with text and photos related to CITES policy

Our team made a display in the @rbgkew.bsky.social herbarium today to celebrate #CITES at 50

Flowers of the Lego kind at the #Lego shop, #London

Winter Aconite flowering @rbgkew.bsky.social today, find it near the Orangery!

Press Release: Unique Legal Victory for Nature — Conservation-Litigation.org Press Release: Unique Legal Victory for Nature Two cactus smugglers from Italy have been convicted for the illegal trade of over 1000 rare and protected cacti poached from the Atacama Desert in Chile...

Rare enforcement success in the illegal trade of cacti - 2 Italian cacti smugglers prosecuted for illegal trade of over 1000 cacti wild harvested in Chile www.conservation-litigation.org/news/press-r...

Entangled “her”stories – An open multi-linked dynamic dataset of plant genera named for women Which plant genera do you know that are named for women? Who were/are they?

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're spotlighting a fantastic project published in BDJ, which used the power of data to uncover the hidden stories of women in science and publish them as a freely available resource.

blog.pensoft.net/2023/12/06/e...