Plant stories from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank
Browse our amazing plant stories about the many different wild species we've saved around the world. We focus our efforts on protecting plants that are threatened with extinction and of most use for the future.
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Plant story - collecting the seed of intrepid little giant
01 Jan 2010
Conservationists from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank have collected the seed of intrepid little giant, a truly remarkable plant.
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Plant story - helping to conserve Origanum syriacum
01 Jan 2010
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has conserved the endangered Origanum syriacum, the most economic and edible wild plant in Lebanon.
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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 - Acanthus syriacus, a difficult species for seed collecting
01 Jan 2010
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has conserved the rare plant Acanthus syriacus. Farmers cut the plants back because of the hard and harmful spines that hurt them and their cattle. Collecting the seeds of Acanthus syriacus also presents a challenge.
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Plant story - conserving grassland paper daisy in Tasmania
01 Jan 2010
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has conserved the endangered Australian grassland paper daisy (Leucochrysum albicans).
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Plant story - Mimetes hirtus, vulnerable species bagged by Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership in South Africa
01 Jan 2010
Also known as the Marsh pagoda or Vleistompie, this species is difficult to collect.
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Plant story - "Devils claw" found and collected from Botswana
01 Jan 2010
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership fieldwork in the Okavango Delta in December 2005 located five IUCN Red List Index plant species, one of these being the very useful "Devils claw" (Harpagophytum zeyheri).
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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 - 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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Plant story - a rare tree from Kenya, Aloe ballyi, has been saved by Millennium Seed Bank partners
01 Jan 2010
The seeds of a rare Aloe tree were collected in the Taita Hills of Kenya during a collaborative collecting mission involving the National Genebank of Kenya and the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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