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Delve into our collection of plant profiles and feed your fascination with a wealth of plant uses, fun facts, and Kew's valuable work.

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Short argan tree with wide spreading canopy

Argan tree

Sideroxylon spinosum

Species

Rice paddy close up

Asian rice

Oryza sativa

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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

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

Chamomile

Chamaemelum nobile

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Rounded, green coconut palm fruit

Coconut palm

Cocos nucifera

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Looking up at an ash tree

European ash

Fraxinus excelsior

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An olive handing from an olive tree in Kew Gardens

Olive

Olea europaea

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Toothed leaves and thistle-like orange flowers of safflower

Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius

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Turmeric rhizomes in Kew’s Economic Botany Collection

Turmeric

Curcuma longa

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The red berries of a yew tree

Yew

Taxus baccata

Delicate, white flower of a tea plant

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