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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.

The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries. Kew, jointly with the Forestry Commission, founded Bedgebury National Pinetum in Kent in 1923, specialising in growing conifers. In 1994, the Castle Howard Arboretum Trust, which runs the Yorkshire Arboretum, was formed as a partnership between Kew and the Castle Howard Estate.

In 2019, the organisation had 2,316,699 public visitors at Kew, and 312,813 at Wakehurst. Its site at Kew has 40 historically important buildings; it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. The collections at Kew and Wakehurst include over 27,000 taxa of living plants, 8.3 million plant and fungal herbarium specimens, and over 40,000 species in the seed bank. Provided by Wikipedia
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The Herbarium handbook /
Published 1992
The Herbarium handbook /

: xii, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Survival or extinction : proceedings of a conference held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, entitled The Practical Rôle of Botanic Gardens in the Conservation of Rare and Threatened Plants, 11-17 September 1978 /
Published 1979
Survival or extinction : proceedings of a conference held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, entitled The Practical Rôle of Botanic Gardens in the Conservation of Rare and Threaten...

: ix, 250 p. : ill., 2 maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographies and indexes. : 0950487627

A handbook of the Yemen flora /
Published 1997
A handbook of the Yemen flora /

: vi, 434 p., [40] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 27 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-428) and indexes. : 1900347318

Wood, J. R. I.
Edible wild plants of subsaharan Africa : an annotated check list, emphasizing the woodland and savanna floras of eastern and southern Africa, including plants utilized for food by chimpanzees and baboons /
Published 1992
Edible wild plants of subsaharan Africa : an annotated check list, emphasizing the woodland and savanna floras of eastern and southern Africa, including plants utilized for food by...

: 239 p. ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210) and index. : 0947643516

Peters, Charles R.
The plant hunters : the adventures of the world's greatest botanical explorers /
Published 2009
The plant hunters : the adventures of the world's greatest botanical explorers /

: "Kew 250th, plants, people, possibilities"--Slip case. : 63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. : Includes index. : 9780233002446 (hbk.)

Fry, Carolyn
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