Living
collections:
Kew | Wakehurst | Micropropagation
Unit | Regions and groups
The
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is situated near the river
Thames and covers over 121 hectares. The Living Collections
at Kew consist of plants and fungi in vivo, in
vitro and cryo-preserved (including DNA samples and cryo-preserved
tissue).
Pictured: living collections
in the palm house at Kew.
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Plants in vivo
Living Collections at Kew represent more than 33,000 different
taxa and are spread around six glasshouses, the formal gardens,
the arboretum, the conservation area and the nurseries.
Plants in vitro / cryo-preserved (incl. DNA samples and cryo-preserved
tissues)
An average of 800 higher plants and bryophytes are held in vitro
with 14 species as cryo-preserved plant tissues and numerous
samples of orchid seeds. The DNA Bank contains approximately
13,000 samples of plant genomic DNA.
Fungal in vitro / cultures / cryo-preserved
Kew has over 100 accessions of fungi involved in mycorrhizal
associations with orchids and 1,150 fungal cultures in oil
and cryo-preserved (mainly wood-rotting basidiomycetes).
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