Gilliesia isopetala Ravenna muy cerca de su localidad tipo. Especie endémica de Chile. SN Cerro Poqui, 28/09/2019 #Gilliesia #geophytes #floradeChile #ChileanFlora Endemic Plants of Chile Flora Chilena

Save the #BenmoreGiants. The magnificent Redwood Avenue Benmore Botanic Garden needs urgent root work to survive. Help save these iconic trees by donating online at rbge.org.uk/benmoregiants or text GIANTS to 70660 to donate £3.

@KevinReid_RBGE Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh RBGE Press Office Good to hear this - RBGE is tasked with taking a lead in protecting our precious planet. No single use plastic water bottles should have any place on our site!

Acer oblongum in Orto Botanico di Firenze, Italy

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is the rare Heliconia estherae (#Heliconiaceae, #Zingiberales) flowering now in Singapore Botanic Gardens.

This @Darwin_Defra project works with Tanzanian communities to better understand the costs and benefits of community-based forest management

Important new study of extinction threat for tropical African plants (with co-authors David Harris and Barbara Mackinder from @RBGE_Science )

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is Etlingera loerzingii that I collected in 2004 in W Sumatra, Indonesia. It flowered again in Aug 2019 in a research glasshouse Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/20040693. In the future we will hopefully have space to grow it in a public glasshouse.

By sponsoring an acre of rainforest, you will help to protect, in partnership with local communities, some of the most threatened and species-rich rainforest in the world at our cloud forest reserve in north-west Ecuador.

Just under 1000 conifers ready to go to @NBGGlasnevin. They will be grown on and eventually planted out in the JFK arboretum as part of the ICCP. #rbgehort #fitzroya #abies #araucaria #prumnopitys #sciadopitys #widdringtonia #calocedrus #cephalotaxus #torreya #xanthocyparis

Can anyone identify this caterpillar which was taken in southern Chile where it was devouring nalca (Gunnera)?

Peperomia nummularioides - one of four species endemic to mainland Chile. This species was epiphytic on Luma apiculata

Senecio senecioides - a tough survivor of the Chilean Atacama Desert (Photo D. Rae)

Schizanthus litoralis (image Sergio Elortegu) is one of 17 species treated in a new taxonomic revision of this remarkable group of plants doi.org/10.3897/phytok… Endemic Plants of Chile

Endemic Plants of Chile now with 3000 images thanks to the generosity of so many people. Sergio Ibanez and Kester Bull helped with images of the very rare and beautiful Malesherbia tocopillana from northern Chile

A good autumn harvest of Legrandia conccina fruit from our Edinburgh private garden

Iván Endemic Plants of Chile you will be pleased to read the comments about your book 😊

Nothofagus alessandrii featured on the front cover of a new soft back Spanish language edition of 'Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile' - now being sold in bookshops in Chile

Rayenia malalcurensis - a remarkable new monotypic genus in the Escalloniaceae from the Andes of South-Central Chile doi.org/10.11646/Phyto…