Living collections: Kew | Wakehurst | Micropropagation
Unit | Regions and groups
The living plant
collections at the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Kew and at the
country garden at Wakehurst
Place reflect global
plant diversity and provide a reference
source which serves all aspects of botanical and horticultural
science
within our organisation. It is probably the largest and most
diverse living collection in the world; the variety of conditions
available at the two sites allows the development of two
differing but complementary collections. The Living Collections
is represented
by about 85,000 live accessions at Kew and Wakehurst Place.
More than 300 specimens of trees are ‘champions’ of
their species growing in the British Isles.
The living collection contains
not only live accessions planted in the garden, but also in
vitro and cryo-preserved plants and
fungi held at the Micropropagation
Unit and the
living seeds held in the Millennium
Seed Bank.
http://www.kew.org/collections/plants.html
