Jan 24, 2025 · Discover a world of science hiding behind our beautiful botanical collections filled with over 40,000 living plants

Mar 22, 2021 · Our American Prairie at Wakehurst is gradually taking shape right before our eyes to become a stunning sea of grasses and wildflowers. Covering six acres, our new landscape will evoke the herbaceous wild plant communities of North America. Not only a beautiful and immersive visitor attraction, the prairie will also be a ‘living laboratory’ for our scientists to learn more about this ...

The sacred lotus can control the temperature of its flowers, keeping them above 30°C during winter to attract insects.. Sacred lotus seeds remain viable for extremely long periods of time – a seed over one thousand years old successfully sprouted. Sacred lotus plants are promising candidates for nature-based water treatment, filtering out harmful heavy metals, while also preventing the ...

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is a new portal aimed at digitising and sharing known data on flora so that it can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, used for research purposes, and to inform decisions about conservation, land use, policy and practice.POWO will ultimately enable access to information on all the world’s known seed-bearing plants by 2020.

Aug 15, 2019 · Surviving fire. Fire can devastate a landscape, but some plants have adapted to spread when things start heating up. In the sugarbush family (Proteaceae), some species of Grevillea have adapted to produce fewer seeds and the ones they do produce can withstand the flames.. By spending less energy on making fruits and seeds, they can direct more towards storage organs, like their roots, which ...

As members of the nightshade family (Solanceae), tomatoes were thought to be poisonous when brought to Europe and grown only as ornamental plantsBotanically, tomatoes are berries and considered fruit.However, in 1893 the US Supreme Court defined them as vegetables for tax purposes. The first genetically-engineered food to be sold in shops was the Flavr Savr tomato, which was modified to extend ...

Mar 11, 2023 · Making the connection. The mycelium also plays a crucial role in fungal reproduction. The mycelia of two compatible fungi can fuse together, allowing the cells of each fungus to combine and their DNA to mix.

By train. Kew Bridge station is 800m from Elizabeth Gate, via Kew Bridge.South West Trains run services from Waterloo, via Vauxhall and Clapham Junction. There is no level access at Kew Bridge. Richmond station has lift and level access. Take 65 bus (in the direction of Ealing Broadway) to Lion or Victoria Gate.

May 23, 2020 · 1. They're ancient plants. Mosses are non-flowering plants which produce spores and have stems and leaves, but don't have true roots. Mosses, and their cousins liverworts and hornworts, are classified as Bryophyta (bryophytes) in the plant kingdom.

Sunflowers can remove toxic elements from soils, like lead and uranium, and have been used in clean-up operations at both Chernobyl and Fukushima.. As ornamentals, there are a wide variety of sunflower cultivars, including ‘Aztec Sun’, ‘Mongolian Giant’ and ‘Teddy Bear’.. Despite their name, sunflower seeds are actually the fruit of the sunflower, known as an ‘achene’.