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The world's greatest glasshouse

The spectacular Temperate House is now open. See over 10,000 plants in the world's biggest Victorian glasshouse.

Kew Science blog

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compilation of images from the trip to New york for the 50th and 25th anniversaries of CBHL and EBHL

18th July 2018

Celebrating 50 years of library collaboration

Fiona Ainsworth, Head of Library, Art and Archives at RBG Kew, reflects on the importance of meeting her counterparts in botanical and horticultural organisations across the world.

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Kew Science

Unlike the widely cultivated and sterile Cavendish Banana, the Madagascar Banana Ensete perrieri has small fruit which contain seeds

6th July 2018

The critically endangered Madagascar Banana

Kew scientists tell the tale of the critically endangered Madagascar Banana (Ensete perrieri), a wild relative of the domesticated banana millions of us eat every day.

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Kew Science