It’s that time of year again - we can now reveal our top ten new species of 2024! 🎉 From a lonely liana to a fungus growing on dead willows, check out the full list in our new blog 🌱🍄 Here’s a few of our favourites 🧵👇

Exciting News! Research has found a plant’s past adaptations can help it survive pollution!🌿 Kew's Mike Fay & team @BangorUni found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery post-pollution 👉

🎉 Today is Darwin’s birthday! This is an actual wild tomato plant that he collected himself, over 180 years ago! 🍅 Find out how the millions of specimens we have in our Herbarium can help protect our crops & our planet’s future 🌍 🎥👇 #DarwinDay

It's #InternationalWomenInSTEM Day! 👩‍🔬 The scientists of our Nature Unlocked programme are busy studying the diverse landscapes of our Wakehurst living laboratory, researching the benefits of biodiversity for wildlife, people & planet! 🌍 Take a look 👇

🌱 50 years, 200,000 legumes & a lifetime of discovery! On #WorldPulsesDay, meet Dr Gwilym Lewis, our legume expert uncovering the secrets of peas & beans 🥜 🎥 Watch him talk about life as a taxonomist & read his incredible story 👉

Only three weeks remain to apply the Emily Holmes Memorial Scholarships! 🎓 These scholarships provide funding towards plant and fungal postgraduate research projects 🌿🍄 Apply before February 28 2025 👇

🌱 Orchids are nature’s early warning system - when they disappear, whole ecosystems are at risk 🌍 Watch our expert Dr Oscar Pérez Escobar (@LatinOrchidBot) explain why protecting orchids is critical & how our scientists are racing to save them. 👉

As part of Operation Thunder, Border Force have seized 450 live plants & other wildlife helping prevent the illegal trade of endangered species 💪🌿 We're pleased to be supporting this vital work to help protect our planet's biodiversity 🌍 👇

How are genomics reshaping our understanding of Magnoliid evolution? 🌿 Our latest study explores the phylogeny of this diverse clade, analyzing 235 species from 199 genera to uncover evolutionary insights 🔗 📖 Read the full #openaccess paper:

RT @GhadaFathiWaly: Grateful to @JohnEScanlon for a fascinating visit to @kewgardens last week. Gained valuable insights on plant conserva…

RT @JohnEScanlon: It was my great pleasure to welcome @GhadaFathiWaly, Executive Director of @UNODC & her team to @kewgardens last week. Lo…

🍄 New paper alert! 🕷️ A zombie fungus infecting UK & Irish spiders! Meet Gibellula attenboroughii, a newly described species named after Sir David Attenborough. It manipulates cave spiders, leading them to die in ways that optimise spore spread. 📖 👉

JOB: Want to share the secret stories of Kew's historic collections? We're looking for an excellent science communicator to boost awareness & extend the reach of our exciting Digitisation Project 🌿 👉 Learn more 👉 📆 9 Feb

⏳ One week left to apply! The Bentham-Moxon Trust at Kew Gardens is seeking a Finance and Administration Manager to support critical plant conservation work. 🌿 Don’t miss your chance to join a team making a global impact: 👉🔗

📢 Don't miss these opportunities to make an impact in interdisciplinary research. Apply today! 🌟 #PhD #Research #Studentships #AcademicOpportunities

🌳 New paper alert! 🌳 In an assisted migration experiment, increased herbivory challenges stand diversity's mitigating effects. What does this mean for forest biodiversity under climate change? 🔗 📖 Read the full #openaccess paper:

Why would you want to zap tree seeds with lightning bolts? ⚡ This is how experiments to break seed dormancy with plasma developed exciting new tools to sort defective seeds from healthy 👇