Plants that walk, flowers that smell of rotting flesh, carnivorous flora, and fungi that penetrate insects to consume their insides…

Join us for a tour of the plants and fungi that have evolved some spooky adaptations, many of which have inspired horror films, myths, and legends. You’ll get up close to plants that feature in films like Day of the Triffids, journey into our Fungarium basement collection to see parasitic mushrooms, and face an eerie glasshouse of crawling cacti.

Led by authors of Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror: me and filmmaker Tony Mardon

Tickets are available here

Important information

• Tours are 90 minutes long and run twice a day on select dates only: 9, 24, 29, 20 and 31 October, 1 November.
• The evening “After Dark” tours will be torch-lit
• Includes entry to Kew Gardens from 10am on the day of the tour.
• You must be 18+ to join this tour.
• Check out Terms and Conditions on Kew’s website