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Species

Short argan tree with wide spreading canopy

Argan tree

Sideroxylon spinosum

Species

Rice paddy close up

Asian rice

Oryza sativa

Species

Pear-shaped fruit with dark green skin; greenish-yellow flesh; and a single, large, rounded seed in the centre.

Avocado

Persea americana

Cultivar

Cavendish bananas

Cavendish banana

Musa acuminata

Species

white, daisy-like flowers with a yellow centre of chamomile plant

Chamomile

Chamaemelum nobile

Species

Rounded, green coconut palm fruit

Coconut palm

Cocos nucifera

Species

Looking up at an ash tree

European ash

Fraxinus excelsior

Species

White flowers and small, rigid, green leaves of manuka plant

Manuka

Leptospermum scoparium

Species

An olive handing from an olive tree in Kew Gardens

Olive

Olea europaea

Species

Toothed leaves and thistle-like orange flowers of safflower

Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius

Species

Turmeric rhizomes in Kew’s Economic Botany Collection

Turmeric

Curcuma longa

Species

The red berries of a yew tree

Yew

Taxus baccata

Delicate, white flower of a tea plant

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