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Nabil Ali in the Botanic Garden

The artist who made ink from Newton's Apple Tree

16 Oct 2023

Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden – including...

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Planting ideas: Botanic Garden opens access with living collections portal

02 Oct 2020

A new web portal to Cambridge University Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global...

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Unexpected experiences: Beverley Glover discusses keeping the Botanic Gardens open online

07 Jul 2020

In the second of a new series, Beverley Glover talks about keeping the gardens open online and the apprehension welcoming visitors back in person.

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New ‘Rising Path’ opens at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

20 Sep 2018

A new Rising Path, designed to offer a fresh perspective on Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s historic Systematic Beds, will open to the public...

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Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle

12 Feb 2018

Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living...

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden (CUBG)

World's botanic gardens contain a third of all known plant species, and help protect the most threatened

25 Sep 2017

The most in-depth species survey to date finds an “astonishing array” of plant diversity in the global botanic garden network, including 41% of all...

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Swallowtail Close-up

Cambridge University set to blitz the Botanic Garden

24 Jun 2011

Set to the stunning backdrop of Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden, the Zoology Department is once again going on a BioBlitz.

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