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.

Experience sights, scents and stories from the Mediterranean, California, South Africa and Western Australia.

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

Composed of 100-200 fused berry-like fruits, many people are surprised that pineapples grow on the ground.

These carnivorous plants mainly catch insects, but some species have caught animals as large as small rodents.

Endangered in the wild and even rarer to find in cultivation, we have two jade vines that you can occasionally see in our Rainforest.

This plant is the source of chocolate! Cacao pods come in many shapes, sizes and colours.

This rare beauty is only open for 48 hours and attracts insect pollinators with its stench of rotting flesh. Our titan arums are currently in their leaf form as they flower about once a year. Look out for our social media updates for when they bloom.