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Tom Schreuder appointed as the new Business Director of Hortus botanicus Leiden 03 December 2024Tom Schreuder has been appointed as the new Business Director of Hortus botanicus Leiden. Schreuder succeeds Peter Inklaar, who held the position for ...
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Climate-proof Mediterranean garden in the Hortus opened by André Kuipers 23 May 2024On 22 May, astronaut André Kuipers opened the new Mediterranean garden in the Hortus. With this water-efficient garden, the Hortus aims to offer ins...
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Working in a living museum 23 August 2023Roderick Bouman is collection manager of the Leiden Hortus botanicus. He keeps track of which plants there are in the garden, where they come from and...
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National flower: The daisy is everywhere thanks to men with mowers 06 June 2023The daisy has been crowned the Netherlands’ national flower. This was revealed on Sunday in the National Flower vote on the Vroege Vogels radio show. ...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Hortus prefect visits Indonesia on knowledge mission 23 May 2023Hortus prefect Paul Keßler was a part of the delegation of Leiden researchers that traveled to Indonesia on a knowledge mission. In two weeks, he visi...
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Counting lichens with your nose pressed to a tree 08 May 2023It may look a little weird: you spot a person pressing their nose to a tree, clipboard at the ready. That is our PhD student Tim Claerhout, who is car...
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Radio show opens vote for national flower of the Netherlands 08 May 2023The Netherlands doesn’t have a national flower. The Vroege Vogels radio show wants to change this and is holding a vote. Experts from Leiden Universit...
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Indonesian 'coffee plant' named after Leiden researcher 19 April 2023Research on Asian plants is his life's work. Now a crown is added to that: a plant from the coffee family bearing his name. Paul Kessler is LUF profes...
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New research at the Hortus: the delimitation of the genus Uvaria L. 12 April 2023In the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia the soursop family (Annonaceae) can be found. The genus Uvaria is a part of this family, but it has not ...
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Educational adventures in the tropics: discovering rainforests in Borneo 11 April 2023Photographing fluorescent flowers, searching for frogs and shooting tropical cucumbers out of trees: this is only a small part of the course Tropical ...
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New research into hidden nature in our cities 27 September 2022What hidden nature is there in our cities and how can we use such organisms? This is what the HiddenBiodiversity project will be exploring over the ne...
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’ 10 March 2022For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of th...
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Women’s Day for Biology students 09 March 2022‘It was not always accepted, but I just wanted to be a researcher. Now, I am as happy as can be.’ It is one of the quotes from the International Women...
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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research 18 February 2021Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivo...