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  • Art at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

    Art at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

    The commissioning and / or creation of new artworks is a fundamental part of the work of plant taxonomists at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to discover, describe and allocate scientific names to all plant species. As a result the RBGE…

  • Graduate Students

    Graduate Students

    Jack Baker. 'Enhancing the Impact of Botanical Collections on Policy for Climate & Conservation Outcomes'. Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between RBGE and the University of Edinburgh, funded by the AHRC.  Claire Banks. 'Company…

  • Sibbaldia: The International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture

    Sibbaldia

    Sibbaldia is a diamond open access journal which provides an opportunity for horticulturists and others in botanic gardens worldwide to share their expertise in maintaining and managing living collections. Horticulture in botanic gardens is…

  • Where We Work

    Where We Work

    RBGE is a highly international scientific botanic garden. Our science builds on collaborative partnerships, many established over decades or even centuries of working together. Our work is guided by key international policies including the…

  • Our Data and Research Outputs

    Access our Research Outputs

    In line with the Scottish Government's Open Data Strategy, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is committed to making our research publications and associated data freely open and available for others to use and reuse. We aim to make all…

  • Protocol Development

    Protocol Development

    From the very basic problems of how to break up different kinds of tissue in order to extract DNA, to working with the "pre-fragmented" DNA that can be found in historic specimens, working in a Botanical Garden laboratory is full of…

  • Historic DNA lab

    Historic DNA lab

    In 2021, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh created a small suite of labs specifically for the extraction of DNA from historic herbarium specimens.  These labs are located away from the other molecular labs and are run using clean laboratory…

  • Global Biomes

    Global Biomes

    We work on characterising biomes – how they are defined, where they are found, how they change over time, the diversity of plants they contain, and how they function. Our focus is mainly on tropical regions, such as dry and wet forests in Latin…

  • Loans Policy

    Loans Policy

    The Herbarium at RBGE will only consider loans from recognised institutes and not from individuals. All loan requests should come from the Curator or Director of the researcher’s institute. A pdf copy of this letter can be sent by email…

  • History of Collectors in the Herbarium

    Collectors

    There are over 14,000 collectors represented in the herbarium at RBGE. Some of these collectors have made a significant impact on the collections, either by the number of specimens or by the number of new species they collected. These collectors…

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