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Corporate Information

RBGE as an organisation Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a charity and a Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) sponsored and supported through Grant-in-Aid by the Scottish Government's Environment and Forestry Directorate (ENFOR). It is governed by…

Environmental Policy

Statement As a leading centre for biodiversity research, horticulture, conservation and education, and a major visitor attraction, RBGE is committed to improving its environmental performance as part of a wider commitment to sustainability. We are…

Engaging Gardens

Engaging Gardens is RBGE’s community engagement programme and is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. We want to make sure that every person can access and benefit from the health, wellbeing and learning opportunities that RBGE's four…

Zingiberaceae

RBGE is the leading European centre of taxonomic research on the Zingiberaceae and is among the foremost in the world. Various approaches are used to gather the maximum information on these plants, such as revising groups of species for floras and…

Floras, Checklists and Inventories

Many parts of the tropics are poorly known botanically. A major aspect of the Tropical Section's efforts are to explore these poorly known regions and to compile data on the plants found there. This data is then published as checklists or…

Destructive Sampling

*** We are currently undergoing migration of data to a new Collections Management System and will not be able to accept requests for Imaging, Destructive Sampling or Loans during this time. Please contact us again with your request in July 2022.…

Loans

*** We are currently undergoing migration of data to a new Collections Management System and will not be able to accept requests for Imaging, Destructive Sampling or Loans during this time. Please contact us again with your request in July 2022.…

History of Collectors in the Herbarium

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…

Cultivated Herbarium

The cultivated herbarium helps facilitate ‘a gold standard’ reference collection within RBGE. Not only do these cultivated specimens act as an identification reference to the living collection i.e. where plant material has been requested for…

Ferns and Allies

The Ferns & Fern Allies include Ferns, horsetails, clubmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They are an ancient group, with fossil evidence of members from 400 million years ago. Around 90% of current diversity in this group is accounted for by…

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