Stories
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
- Podcast
Farmland
Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.
Catalogue
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Origin of cultivated plants / by Alphonse de Candolle.
Candolle, Alphonse de, 1806-1893.Date: 1884- Books
Dictionary of cultivated plants and their centres of diversity excluding ornamentals, forest trees, and lower plants / A.C. Zeven and P.M. Zhukovsky.
Zeven, A. C.Date: 1975- Books
Chromosome atlas of cultivated plants / C.D. Darlington, FRS, and E.K. Janaki Ammal, DSC.
Darlington, C. D. (Cyril Dean), 1903-1981.Date: [1945]- Books
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Fungoid pests of cultivated plants / by M.C. Cooke.
Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914.Date: 1906- Books
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Cultivated plants : their propagation and improvement / [Frederick William Thomas Burbridge].
Burbidge, F. W. (Frederick William), 1847-1905.Date: 1877