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  • The Glasshouses

    The Glasshouses

    The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is home to some of the world’s rarest and most threatened plants, with a third of the collection growing in the Glasshouses.   Safeguarding the future To safeguard this globally important plant collection, the…

  • Treasures Under Glass

    Treasures Under Glass

    The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has a world leading collection of plants, with a third of the collection - over 45,000 plants - growing in the Glasshouses. Watch the short film below to discover more about our precious collection of conservation…

  • Rhododendrons: a Unique Collection

    Rhododendrons - a Unique Collection

    Rhododendrons are at the heart of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Watch the short film below to see how our world leading Rhododendron collection is used for science, conservation and education.

  • Growing on

    Growing on

  • Knowledge and Skills Transfer

    Knowledge and Skills Transfer

    The conservation and sustainable use of natural resources relies on well-informed decision makers, effectively-trained practitioners, and wide public understanding of environmental challenges and solutions. Major skills gaps currently exist in…

  • PhD students at RBGE

    Students

  • Biodiversity Conservation

    Conservation

    Large-scale global change and direct human pressures on the natural environment are leading to extensive biodiversity loss with major impacts on society. Forty per cent of plant species are now threatened with extinction, including important wild…

  • Digitisation

    Digitisation

    Our specimen data and images can be downloaded for free from the online catalogue, including full resolution TIFFs of specimens. All specimen images and data have a CC-0 licence. We have now completed the digitisation of all type specimens, plus…

  • Bryophytes

    Bryophytes

    Bryophytes are the oldest land plants on earth, and have been around for 400 million years or more. Although small, they can be very conspicuous growing as extensive mats in woodland, as cushions on walls, rocks and tree trunks, and as pioneer…

  • Library and Archives

    Library and Archives

    We welcome visits from all researchers including visiting academics, artists, students and members of the public. Please see the Visit the Library pages to find out more and to book an appointment.   

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