Hops are used in beer-making for the bitter taste, flavour stability and retention of the foamy head on top.

These trees turn a dramatic crimson each autumn, and their red tinged timber is used for veneer and furniture.

This is one of the few trees able to regenerate their bark, making it an important renewable forest product.

Like tomatoes, potatoes and tobacco, chillies are members of the nightshade family and come in many shapes.

We grow several varieties of grape in a vineyard surrounding The Rites of Dionysus sculpture at the centre of our Mediterranean Biome.

Olive trees can survive in arid conditions for an incredibly long time – some examples are 2,000 years old.

Cotton is the world’s biggest non-food crop and is used in many things including half of the world’s textiles.

It’s not the flowers that make this plant so colourful, it’s actually the magenta bracts.

This popular ice cream flavour is the second most expensive spice after saffron.

Cultivated around the tropics, there are about 1,000 types of banana.