News from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank
Browse the latest news from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and find out more about how we're helping to save plant life around the world. We focus our efforts on plant species threatened with extinction and of most use in the future.
Plant story - finding Lobelia valida
01 Jan 2010
Find out how the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team found Lobelia valida under a washing line!
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Plant story - Roridula dentata, endemic to South Africa
01 Jan 2010
A tentacle leafed shrub, endemic to the Cape Province of South Africa.
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Plant story - British cornflower a native UK plant species, is under threat from modern agricultural methods
01 Jan 2010
In the 1930's the British cornflower was widespread but by the 1990s this plant species was found in only three of the 10 km grid-squares surveyed, possibly the most dramatic decline of any of our native wildflowers.
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Plant story - Paraisometrum mileense, an "extinct" plant rediscovered
01 Jan 2010
A wild population of Paraisometrum mileense, thought to be extinct in the wild for 100 years, has been rediscovered in Yunnan, China by the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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Plant story - protecting the future of Erica verticillata
01 Jan 2010
Erica verticillata was last seen in the wild in 1908 and was, until 1984, thought to be extinct. It has since been found and re-established thanks to the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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Plant story - the surprising collection of Iris nigricans
01 Jan 2010
Find out how the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership collection team in Jordon found Iris nigricans while taking a coffee break.
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Plant story - Iris sofarana, an endemic plant species from the higher mountains in Lebanon
01 Jan 2010
The showy flowers of Iris sofarana make it vulnerable to unlicensed collecting, for personal and commercial use.
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Plant story - Banksia solandri has been conserved
01 Jan 2010
Banksia solandri has been conserved by the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership's Australian partners. This plant species is in decline due to fire and disease.
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Plant story - finding snow protea
01 Jan 2010
Find out how snow protea (Protea cryophila) was lost and found thanks to the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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Plant story - a newly discovered species of Dioscorea has been collected and saved
01 Jan 2010
This Dioscorea (yam) species is scarce because it has been over-collected for medicinal use. A newly discovered species of Dioscorea has now been collected and saved by the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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New initiative from Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank to protect UK trees takes root
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With a host of new pests and diseases attacking the United Kingdom’s native treescape, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank is tackling the threat by establishing the country’s first national collection of tree seeds – the UK National Tree Seed Project.
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World's smallest waterlily brought back from the brink of extinction at Kew
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