This stunning but stinky bloom of a corpse flower unfurled on 18 June at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, but it will only be around briefly – they tend to last for just 24 to 36 hours.

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MY FIRST trip to London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was spectacular. I set out on an unusually mild February day to visit this year’s annual orchid festival, which was celebrating the 4000-plus ...

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THE launch of Kew Gardens’ annual Orchid Festival was breathtaking this week. The spectacular event is themed around China, and 3,500 orchids are among the 6,000 plants packed into a giant glasshouse.

There are 390,900 species of plants known to science, according to a new report from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The report, which is "the first document to collate current knowledge on the ...