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Millennium Seed Bank hits 10% target

On 15 October 2009 Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership, based at Wakehurst Place, celebrated hitting its target of banking the seeds of 10% of the world's plant species.

Introducing The Plant List

As the 2010 United Nations International Year of Biodiversity comes to a close, the Missouri Botanical Garden and Kew announce the completion of The Plant List.

Close up of a raspy cricket pollinating an orchid on the island of Reunion

An orchid researcher, based on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and collaborating with researchers at Kew, has used motion-sensitive night cameras to capture the first known occurrence of a cricket functioning as a pollinator of flowering plants. The cricket is pollinating an orchid named Angraecum cadetii.

First known instance of a cricket as an orchid pollinator - captured on film by Kew scientist.

An orchid researcher based on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and collaborating with researchers at Kew has used motion sensitive night cameras to capture the first known occurrence of a cricket functioning as a pollinator of flowering plants. The raspy cricket is entirely new to science.

In this video you can see the cricket pollinating an orchid named Angraecum cadetii.

Plants back from the brink

Kew's Director, Professor Stephen Hopper, explains how we're all affected by plants becoming endangered.