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Press Office
Image Library
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To obtain a password please contact msb@kew.org
Images must be credited to RBG Kew.
Wakehurst Place
Millennium Seed Bank
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MSB Storage Vaults |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
MSB Scientists at work |
Ranunculus arvensis |
Scandix pecten venems |
Bupleurum rotundifolium |
Medicago polymorpha |
Paraisometrum mileense credited to Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS |
Native habitat of Paraisometrum mileense credited to Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS |
Mini seed bank |
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Australian Seed Conservation and Research |
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U.S. PartnershipImages should be credited to the Greenbelt Native Plant Center |
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Collection trip to the Oswego River, NJ |
Rhododendron periclymenoides on Staten Island. MSB collection for Fall '07 |
Seed Cleaning at GNPC |
GNPC staff at work in the Drying Room |
Hudsonia tomentosa collection, Long Island, NY Summer '07 |
GNPC collection trip to Bronx, NY |
Prunus maritima in Brooklyn, NY. MSB collection for Summer '07 |
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The billionth seed - Oxytenanthera abyssinica - and presentation to Gordon Brown
Credit to RBG Kew except the last three images, which should be credited to W. Stuppy |
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Gordon Brown holding the billionth seed |
Gordon Brown with Abidine, Zaveri and Matthew |
Dr. Paul Smith, Head of the MSB |
Prof Stephen Hopper, Director RBG Kew |
Dr Paul Smith and billionth seed |
Scientist Janet Terry with the Billionth Seed |
A scientist with the billionth seed
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Scientist and billionth seed |
Sidi Sanogo, collecting in Mali |
Fruiting Oxytenanthera abyssinica plants |
Mali craftsman weaving Oxytenanthera abyssinica culms into storage baskets |
Oxytenanthea abysinnica in Mali |
MSB team collecting Oxytenanthera abyssinica seeds in Mali |
Weaved culms of Oxytenanthera abyssinica, used as fence, bed base and doors |
Storage basket made of weaved Oxytenanthera abyssinica |
Storage basket made of weaved Oxytenanthera abyssinica |
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Oxytenanthea abysinnica seeds |
Oxytenanthea abysinnica seeds |
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'Seeds' and 'Pollen' booksIf you require high resolution versions of the two sheets of images please contact |
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Seed Collecting |
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Collecting Ecballium elaterium, Lebanon |
Collecting Terminalia mollis, Burkina Faso |
Collecting Usteria guineense, Burkina Faso |
Collecting Juniperus phoenicea, Egypt |
Collecting Hyoscyamus |
Collecting Scandix |
Plant pressing in the field, Northern Sinai Desert, Egypt
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Collecting Phalaris, Lebanon
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Collecting Colutea |
Collecting Colutea
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Collecting Ecballium |
Bixa orellana seeds, Mali
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Collecting Ecballium elaterium, Lebanon |
Collecting Onopordon |
Ley's whitebeam collection credited to Tim Rich |
Ley's whitebeam collection credited to Tim Rich |
New Year at Kew - Loder Valley |
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Iris Dell
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Walled Garden
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Daphne bholua |
Daphne bholua |
Christmas
Loder Valley
Field Study Centre
Wildlife
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Blackcap chicks |
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Miscellaneous
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The Stables Restaurant |
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Storm damage of 1987
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