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 - conserving grassland paper daisy in Tasmania
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has conserved the endangered Australian grassland paper daisy (Leucochrysum albicans).
Plant story - Acanthus syriacus, a difficult species for seed collecting
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.
Plant story - helping to conserve Origanum syriacum
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has conserved the endangered Origanum syriacum, the most economic and edible wild plant in Lebanon.
Plant story - Iris sofarana, an endemic plant species from the higher mountains in Lebanon
The showy flowers of Iris sofarana make it vulnerable to unlicensed collecting, for personal and commercial use.
Plant story - collecting the seed of intrepid little giant
Conservationists from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank have collected the seed of intrepid little giant, a truly remarkable plant.
Plant story - Gladiolus aureus is on the verge of extinction
A once wide spread plant species, this geophyte, known only to be found in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa is on the verge of extinction in the wild.
Plant story - Roridula dentata, endemic to South Africa
A tentacle leafed shrub, endemic to the Cape Province of South Africa.
Plant story - last wild population of Cylindrophyllum hallii saved from extinction
A wild population of a long-lost species was discovered during a routine seed collecting trip in South Africa. This plant species had not been documented or collected since 1960.
Plant story - Oxytenanthera abyssinica was the billionth seed collected by Kew's Millennium Seed Bank
The billionth seed was presented to Gordon Brown, on 26 April 2007, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Plant story - Polhillia obsoleta, an endangered shrub from South Africa
With the common name Teesuikerkaroo bos, Polhillia obsoleta is an endangered shrub from the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
