Botanica Fantastica: The Illustrated Guide to Fantastical Plants from Fictional Worlds

Fifty plants and fungi from fiction, including nightlock from The Hunger Games, the weirwood trees of Westeros, triffids, nirnroot from Elder Scrolls, the vines from Stranger Things and the fungus from The Last of Us.

Yes, that is the point of the book: each invented plant is traced back to the real species and science that inspired it, with historical images from Kew's archive alongside.

A 192 page hardback at roughly 24 x 28cm, written by Alison Flood, illustrated by Emma Tudor-Bloch and published by Welbeck with Kew in 2026.

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